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ReviewMolecular therapy. Methods & clinical development2017

Viral Vector-Based Innovative Approaches to Directly Abolishing Tumorigenic Pluripotent Stem Cells for Safer Regenerative Medicine.

Kaoru Mitsui, Kanako Ide, Tomoyuki Takahashi, Ken-Ichiro Kosai

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Review in Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 32% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Molecular imaging of stem cell therapies in ischemic stroke.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2025
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  2. In vivo generation of CAR macrophages via the enucleated mesenchymal stem cell delivery system for glioblastoma therapy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  5. Strategies to Improve the Safety of iPSC-Derived β Cells for β Cell Replacement in Diabetes.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2022
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  9. Prevention of tumor risk associated with the reprogramming of human pluripotent stem cells.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2020
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  11. Showcasing Clinical Development and Production of Cellular Therapies.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2017
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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kaoru MitsuiDepartment of Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.
Kanako IdeDepartment of Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.
Tomoyuki TakahashiDivision of Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine, Cognitive and Molecular Research Institute of Brain Diseases, Kurume University, Fukuoka 830-0011, Japan.
Ken-Ichiro KosaiDepartment of Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan.
Kagoshima University · JPKurume University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) are a promising source of regenerative material for clinical applications. However, hPSC transplant therapies pose the risk of teratoma formation and malignant transformation of undifferentiated remnants. These problems underscore the importance of developing technologies that completely prevent tumorigenesis to ensure safe clinical application. Research to date has contributed to establishing safe hPSC lines, improving the efficiency of differentiation induction, and indirectly ensuring the safety of products. Despite such efforts, guaranteeing the clinical safety of regenerative medicine products remains a key challenge. Given the intrinsic genome instability of hPSCs, selective growth advantage of cancer cells, and lessons learned through failures in previous attempts at hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy, conventional strategies are unlikely to completely overcome issues related to hPSC tumorigenesis. Researchers have recently embarked on studies aimed at locating and directly treating hPSC-derived tumorigenic cells. In particular, novel approaches to directly killing tumorigenic cells by transduction of suicide genes and oncolytic viruses are expected to improve the safety of hPSC-based therapy. This article discusses the current status and future perspectives of methods aimed at directly eradicating undifferentiated tumorigenic hPSCs, with a focus on viral vector transduction.

Indexed as

adenoviral conditional targetingconditionally replicating adenovirusoncolytic viruspluripotent stem cellsregenerative medicinesuicide genesurvivinteratomatumorigenicityviral vector

Identifiers

PMID28480304
PMCPMC5415317
OpenAlexW2596442933

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