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ReviewVaccines2015

Whole Tumor Antigen Vaccines: Where Are We?

Cheryl Lai-Lai Chiang, George Coukos, Lana E Kandalaft

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Review in Vaccines, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 132 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
132citing papers in PubMed
9.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

132 citing papers in PubMed, 269 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Cheryl Lai-Lai ChiangOvarian Cancer Research Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. cheryl_chiang@yahoo.com.
George CoukosOvarian Cancer Research Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. George.coukos@chuv.ch.
Lana E KandalaftOvarian Cancer Research Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. lana.kandalaft@chuv.ch.
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Therapeutic Micro RNA Strategies for Ovarian CancerP50CA083638 · NCI · RESEARCH INST OF FOX CHASE CAN CTR · PI GODWIN, ANDREW K., GOLEMIS, ERICA A. · 1999 to 2013
$33.6M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA083638
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With its vast amount of uncharacterized and characterized T cell epitopes available for activating CD4⁺ T helper and CD8⁺ cytotoxic lymphocytes simultaneously, whole tumor antigen represents an attractive alternative source of antigens as compared to tumor-derived peptides and full-length recombinant tumor proteins for dendritic cell (DC)-based immunotherapy. Unlike defined tumor-derived peptides and proteins, whole tumor lysate therapy is applicable to all patients regardless of their HLA type. DCs are essentially the master regulators of immune response, and are the most potent antigen-presenting cell population for priming and activating naïve T cells to target tumors. Because of these unique properties, numerous DC-based immunotherapies have been initiated in the clinics. In this review, we describe the different types of whole tumor antigens that we could use to pulse DCs ex vivo and in vivo. We also discuss the different routes of delivering whole tumor antigens to DCs in vivo and activating them with toll-like receptor agonists.

Indexed as

dendritic cellspersonalized vaccinesvaccineswhole tumor

Identifiers

PMID26343191
PMCPMC4494356
OpenAlexW2061662618

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