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ArticleThe Journal of clinical investigation2018

The host protecting the tumor from the host - targeting PD‑L1 expressed by host cells.

David H Munn

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Article in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 18% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

David H Munn
Augusta University · US

Funding

Reprogramming the TME for immunogenic antigen-presentationR01CA103320 · NCI · MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA (MCG) · PI MUNN, DAVID H. · 2003 to 2024
$6.0M
PTEN, Tregs and MDSCs in the tumor microenvironmentR01CA211229 · NCI · AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY · PI MUNN, DAVID H. · 2017 to 2021
$1.7M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA103320NCI NIH HHS R01 CA211229
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumors frequently escape from immune surveillance by hijacking the natural control mechanisms that regulate normal immune responses. The programmed death-1 receptor (PD‑1) on T cells normally helps limit excessive immune activation, but it can also suppress beneficial antitumor immunity. In the clinic, blocking either PD‑1 or one of its principal counterligands, programmed death-ligand 1 (PD‑L1), can lead to dramatic responses in certain patients. Because PD‑L1 can be expressed by both the tumor cells themselves and also the host cells, including host immune cells, the actual mechanistic target of therapy has remained unclear. In the current issue of the JCI, two papers, one by Tang and colleagues and the other by Lin and colleagues, used a variety of mouse tumor models to demonstrate that the relevant target for therapy in each case was the PD‑L1 molecules expressed by host cells and not by tumor cells. If this finding is generalized to humans, then it would suggest that the tumor persuades the host to actively suppress its own attempted immune response against the tumor cells.

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B7-H1 AntigenNeoplasmsAnimalsHumansMiceT-LymphocytesB7-H1 Antigen

Identifiers

PMID29337304
PMCPMC5785247
OpenAlexW2782604794

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