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ReviewTrends in cancer2017

γδ T Cells: Unexpected Regulators of Cancer Development and Progression.

Christopher Fleming, Samantha Morrissey, Yihua Cai, Jun Yan

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Review in Trends in cancer, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers.

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65citing papers in PubMed
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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

65 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Controversial role of γδ T cells in colorectal cancer.American journal of cancer research · 2024
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  12. γδ T cells: origin and fate, subsets, diseases and immunotherapy.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2023
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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.

Christopher FlemingDepartment of Medicine, Tumor Immunobiology Program, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
Samantha MorrisseyDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA.
Yihua CaiDepartment of Medicine, Tumor Immunobiology Program, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
Jun YanDepartment of Medicine, Tumor Immunobiology Program, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA. Electronic address: jun.yan@louisville.edu.

Funding

Transcriptional Regulation of Immunosuppressive Macrophages by c-Maf in CancerR01CA213990 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE · PI YAN, JUN · 2017 to 2021
$1.8M
Regulation of dermal gammadelta T cells by microbial pathogens/commensals in health and psoriasisR01AI128818 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE · PI YAN, JUN · 2017 to 2021
$974k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA213990NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI128818
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accumulating evidence suggests a role for gamma delta (γδ) T cells as unexpected drivers of tumor development and progression. These protumoral γδ T cells are abundant in the tumor microenvironment in both mouse and human. They promote tumor progression by: (i) inducing an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment and angiogenesis via cytokine production; (ii) functioning as regulatory T (Treg)/T helper 2 (Th2)-like cells; (iii) interfering with dendritic cell (DC) effector function; and (iv) inhibiting antitumor adaptive T cell immunity via the programmed death-1 (PD-1)-programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) pathway. Understanding how these cells are regulated and what their specific role in cancer is will provide insight for the development of approaches that specifically target these cells and can thereby improve the efficacy of cancer immunotherapies.

Indexed as

Adaptive ImmunityAnimalsCarcinogenesisCytokinesCytotoxicity, ImmunologicDendritic CellsDisease ProgressionHumansImmune ToleranceImmunotherapyIntraepithelial LymphocytesMiceNeoplasmsNeovascularization, PathologicProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorSignal TransductionCytokinesProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorPD-1 regulationprotumoraltumor microenvironmentγδ T cells

Identifiers

PMID28780933
PMCPMC5551453

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