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ReviewThe Journal of clinical investigation2016

Exosomes and tumor-mediated immune suppression.

Theresa L Whiteside

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Review in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 369 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
369citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
25.2field-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

369 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 567 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Correlation between exosomal PD-L1 and prognosis in patients with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
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  18. Extracellular vesicles in spine tumors: biological roles, immune modulation, and therapeutic implications.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026
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309 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

1 author.

Theresa L Whiteside

Funding

Restoring anti-tumor immunity in the microenvironment of head and neck cancerR01CA168628 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI WHITESIDE, THERESA L. · 2013 to 2017
$1.7M
(PQ11) Reversing exosome-mediated immune suppression - a novel strategy for cancer therapyR21CA205644 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BOYIADZIS, MICHAEL, WHITESIDE, THERESA L. · 2016 to 2017
$370k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA16862NCI NIH HHS R01 CA168628NCI NIH HHS R21 CA205644
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumor-derived exosomes (TEX) are harbingers of tumor-induced immune suppression: they carry immunosuppressive molecules and factors known to interfere with immune cell functions. By delivering suppressive cargos consisting of proteins similar to those in parent tumor cells to immune cells, TEX directly or indirectly influence the development, maturation, and antitumor activities of immune cells. TEX also deliver genomic DNA, mRNA, and microRNAs to immune cells, thereby reprogramming functions of responder cells to promote tumor progression. TEX carrying tumor-associated antigens can interfere with antitumor immunotherapies. TEX also have the potential to serve as noninvasive biomarkers of tumor progression. In the tumor microenvironment, TEX may be involved in operating numerous signaling pathways responsible for the downregulation of antitumor immunity.

Indexed as

Immune ToleranceImmunity, CellularAnimalsBiomarkers, TumorDNA, NeoplasmExosomesHumansMicroRNAsNeoplasmsRNA, MessengerRNA, NeoplasmSignal TransductionBiomarkers, TumorDNA, NeoplasmMicroRNAsRNA, MessengerRNA, Neoplasm

Identifiers

PMID26927673
PMCPMC4811135
OpenAlexW2292821496

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