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ReviewCancer gene therapy2017

T-cell programming in pancreatic adenocarcinoma: a review.

Y D Seo, V G Pillarisetty

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Review in Cancer gene therapy, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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.

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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. T cell adaptation in chronic infections and tumors.Cellular & molecular immunology · 2026
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  4. International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  8. The Role of Immunotherapy in Pancreatic Cancer.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2022
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  12. TGF-β Alters the Proportion of Infiltrating Immune Cells in a Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2022
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  16. Immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer.World journal of clinical cases · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Y D SeoDepartment of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
V G PillarisettyDepartment of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
University of Washington · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite recent advancements in multimodal therapy, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) continues to have a dismal prognosis. In the era of burgeoning immune therapies against previously difficult-to-treat malignancies, there has been growing interest in activating the immune system against PDA; however, unlike in other cancers such as melanoma and lymphoma, immunotherapy has not yielded many clinically significant results. To harness these mechanisms for therapeutic use, an in-depth understanding of T-cell programming in the immune microenvironment of PDA must be achieved. The outcome of T-cell programming against pathogens or cancer depends on the uptake and presentation of foreign antigens by dendritic cells and macrophages to T cells, and the expression of various co-stimulatory molecules and cytokines. Subsequent immune responses are kept in check via regulatory mechanisms such as immune checkpoints (for example, programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) and cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA-4)), as well as other immunosuppressive cell types such as regulatory T cells (T

Indexed as

ImmunomodulationAdaptive ImmunityAdenocarcinomaAnimalsAntigens, NeoplasmBiomarkersCarcinoma, Pancreatic DuctalGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansLymphocyte ActivationLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingPancreatic NeoplasmsSignal TransductionT-LymphocytesTumor MicroenvironmentAntigens, NeoplasmBiomarkers

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PMID27910859
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