Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28286692›Full record

ArticleForum on immunopathological diseases and therapeutics2015

Reinvigorating Exhausted T Cells by Blockade of the PD-1 Pathway.

Junghwa Lee, Eunseon Ahn, Haydn T Kissick, Rafi Ahmed

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Article in Forum on immunopathological diseases and therapeutics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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103citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

103 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 155 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Junghwa LeeEmory Vaccine Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Eunseon AhnEmory Vaccine Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Haydn T KissickEmory Vaccine Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Rafi AhmedEmory Vaccine Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Emory University · US

Funding

Transgenic/KnockoutP01AI056299 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI SHARPE, ARLENE H. · 2003 to 2023
$42.5M
T CELL MEMORY TO VIRUSESR01AI030048 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI AHMED, RAFI · 1990 to 2022
$5.2M
NIAID NIH HHS N01 AI030048NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI056299NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI030048
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

T-cell exhaustion due to persistent antigen stimulation is a key feature of chronic viral infections and cancer. Programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) is a major regulator of T-cell exhaustion, and blocking the PD-1 pathway restores T-cell function and improves pathogen control and tumor eradication. Immunotherapy targeting the PD-1 inhibitory receptor pathway has demonstrated significant antitumor activity. Recently, antibodies blocking PD-1 have been approved for use in cancer patients. In this review, we summarize the role of the PD-1 pathway in chronic infection and cancer and the therapeutic potential of PD-1-directed immunotherapy in patients with chronic infection or cancer.

Indexed as

cancerchronic infectionimmunotherapyprogrammed cell death-1T-cell exhaustion

Identifiers

PMID28286692
PMCPMC5341794
OpenAlexW2416065732

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