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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2015

Immune Reactivation by Cell-Free Fetal DNA in Healthy Pregnancies Re-Purposed to Target Tumors: Novel Checkpoint Inhibition in Cancer Therapeutics.

Elizabeth Ann L Enninga, Wendy K Nevala, Shernan G Holtan, Svetomir N Markovic

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% 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

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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Cell-free fetal DNA and spontaneous preterm birth.Reproduction (Cambridge, England) · 2018
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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 3 institutions in 1 country.

Elizabeth Ann L EnningaMayo Graduate School, Mayo Clinic , Rochester, MN , USA.
Wendy K NevalaDepartment of Hematology, Mayo Clinic , Rochester, MN , USA.
Shernan G HoltanDepartment of Transplantation, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, MN , USA.
Svetomir N MarkovicDepartment of Hematology, Mayo Clinic , Rochester, MN , USA ; Department of Oncology, Mayo Clinic , Rochester, MN , USA.
Mayo Clinic in Arizona · USMayo Clinic · USUniversity of Minnesota · US

Funding

Mayo Clinic Center for Translational Science ActivitiesTL1TR000137 · NCATS · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI KHOSLA, SUNDEEP · 2012 to 2015
$2.1M
NCATS NIH HHS TL1 TR000137
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role of the immune system in cancer progression has become increasingly evident over the past decade. Chronic inflammation in the promotion of tumorigenesis is well established, and cancer-associated tolerance/immune evasion has long been appreciated. Recent developments of immunotherapies targeting cancer-associated inflammation and immune tolerance, such as cancer vaccines, cell therapies, neutralizing antibodies, and immune checkpoint inhibitors, have shown promising clinical results. However, despite significant therapeutic advances, most patients diagnosed with metastatic cancer still succumb to their malignancy. Treatments are often toxic, and the financial burden of novel therapies is significant. Thus, new methods for utilizing similar biological systems to compare complex biological processes can give us new hypotheses for combating cancer. One such approach is comparing trophoblastic growth and regulation to tumor invasion and immune escape. Novel concepts regarding immune activation in pregnancy, especially reactivation of the immune system at labor through toll like receptor engagement by fetal derived DNA, may be applicable to cancer immunotherapy. This review summarizes mechanisms of inflammation in cancer, current immunotherapies used in the clinic, and suggestions for looking beyond oncology for novel methods to reverse cancer-associated tolerance and immunologic exhaustion utilizing mechanisms encountered in normal human pregnancy.

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cell-free fetal DNAcirculating tumor DNAimmunotherapyinflammationtoll like receptors

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PMID26379664
PMCPMC4549650
OpenAlexW2114901096

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