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ReviewJournal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR2017

Natural Killer Cells - Their Role in Tumour Immunosurveillance.

Preeti Sharma, Pradeep Kumar, Rachna Sharma

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Review in Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Preeti SharmaAssociate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Santosh Medical University, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Pradeep KumarProfessor, Department of Biochemistry, Santosh Medical University, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Rachna SharmaLecturer, Department of Biochemistry, TSM Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Santosh University · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An important component of the innate immune system, the natural killer cells that originate from the lymphoid cell lineage, hold tremendous potential as an effective therapeutic tool to combat a variety of cancers. Their vast capability to kill altered cells such as opsonized cells (antibody coated), tumour cells, genotoxically changed cells without affecting the healthy cells of the body, make them an effective therapeutic agent for various types of cancers. Besides, through interplay and molecular crosstalk via several cytokines, they also augment the adaptive immune response by, promoting the differentiation, activation and recruitment of component cells of the system. With the current advance knowledge of Natural Killer (NK) cells, their receptor-ligand interactions involved in functional regulation, various mechanistic approaches involving the role of cytokines led to desired modulation of NK cell activity in a tailor-made manner, for triggering clinically relevant responces. Several strategies have been adopted by researchers, to augment the efficacy of NK cells. Still many challenges exist for increasing the therapeutic relevance of these cells.

Indexed as

Antibody dependent cellular toxicityImmunotherapyMechanismNatural killer cell receptorsTumour surveillance

Identifiers

PMID28969116
PMCPMC5620756
OpenAlexW2751221763

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