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ArticleJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2015

Bridging infectious disease vaccines with cancer immunotherapy: a role for targeted RNA based immunotherapeutics.

Elias J Sayour, Luis Sanchez-Perez, Catherine Flores, Duane A Mitchell

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Article in Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Elias J SayourDepartment of Neurosurgery, UF Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl USA ; Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC USA.
Luis Sanchez-PerezDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Duke Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC USA.
Catherine FloresDepartment of Neurosurgery, UF Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl USA.
Duane A MitchellDepartment of Neurosurgery, UF Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl USA.
University of Florida · USDuke Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumor-specific immunotherapy holds the promise of eradicating malignant tumors with exquisite precision without additional toxicity to standard treatments. Cancer immunotherapy has conventionally relied on cell-mediated immunity while successful infectious disease vaccines have been shown to induce humoral immunity. Efficacious cancer immunotherapeutics likely require both cellular and humoral responses, and RNA based cancer vaccines are especially suited to stimulate both arms of the immune system. RNA is inherently immunogenic, inducing innate immune responses to initiate cellular and humoral adaptive immunity, but has limited utility based on its poor in vivo stability. Early work utilized 'naked' RNA vaccines, whereas more recent efforts have attempted to encapsulate RNA thereby protecting it from degradation. However, feasibility has been limited by a lack of defined and safe targeting mechanisms for the in vivo delivery of stabilized RNA. As new cancer antigens come to the forefront with novel RNA encapsulation and targeting techniques, RNA vaccines may prove to be a vital, safe and robust method to initiate patient-specific anti-tumor efficacy.

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ImmunotherapyRNAVaccines

Identifiers

PMID25901285
PMCPMC4404652
OpenAlexW2045237371

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