Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27793569›Full record

ReviewTrends in immunology2016

Dendritic Cells and Cancer Immunity.

Alycia Gardner, Brian Ruffell

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Review in Trends in immunology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 505 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
505citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
19.4field-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

505 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 890 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Autologous tumor lysate-loaded dendritic cell vaccination in glioblastoma patients: a systematic review of literature.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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  19. Precancerous microenvironment: A signalling perspective.Current opinion in cell biology · 2026
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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alycia GardnerDepartment of Immunology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA; Cancer Biology PhD Program, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
Brian RuffellDepartment of Immunology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA; Breast Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA. Electronic address: Brian.Ruffell@moffitt.org.
Moffitt Cancer Center · USUniversity of South Florida · US

Funding

Regulating Intratumoral Leukocytes to Improve Response to ChemotherapyR00CA185325 · NCI · H. LEE MOFFITT CANCER CTR & RES INST · PI RUFFELL, BRIAN · 2015 to 2017
$752k
NCI NIH HHS R00 CA185325
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dendritic cells (DCs) are central regulators of the adaptive immune response, and as such are necessary for T-cell-mediated cancer immunity. In particular, antitumoral responses depend on a specialized subset of conventional DCs that transport tumor antigens to draining lymph nodes and cross-present antigen to activate cytotoxic T lymphocytes. DC maturation is necessary to provide costimulatory signals to T cells, but while DC maturation occurs within tumors, it is often insufficient to induce potent immunity, particularly in light of suppressive mechanisms within tumors. Bypassing suppressive pathways or directly activating DCs can unleash a T-cell response, and although clinical efficacy has proven elusive, therapeutic targeting of DCs continues to hold translational potential in combinatorial approaches.

Indexed as

Antigen PresentationCross-PrimingAnimalsAntigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesCell DifferentiationDendritic CellsHumansImmunotherapyNeoplasmsT-Lymphocytes, CytotoxicTumor MicroenvironmentAntigens, NeoplasmCancer Vaccinesantigen presentationcancerdendritic cellsimmunotherapytumor microenvironmentvaccination

Identifiers

PMID27793569
PMCPMC5135568
OpenAlexW2533941196

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Registered trials

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