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ReviewJournal of immunology research2017

Regulatory T Cells and Their Prognostic Relevance in Hematologic Malignancies.

Giovanni D'Arena, Candida Vitale, Marta Coscia, Agostino Festa, Nicola Matteo Dario Di Minno, Vincenzo De Feo, Michele Caraglia, Gioacchino Calapai, Luca Laurenti, Pellegrino Musto and 2 more

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Review in Journal of immunology research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Comparison of plasma cytokine expression in adult haematological malignancy patients with bacterial and/or fungal infections.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  6. T Cells Dysfunction in Multiple Myeloma.ImmunoTargets and therapy · 2025
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  7. Prognostic Significance of Regulatory T-Cells and PD-1 + CD8 T-Cells in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Patients Treated with Generic Imatinib.Indian journal of hematology & blood transfusion : an official journal of Indian Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion · 2024
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  12. Overexpression of Potential Markers of Regulatory and Exhausted CD8International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Giovanni D'ArenaHematology and Stem Cell Transplantation Unit, IRCCS Cancer Referral Center of Basilicata, Rionero in Vulture, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3807-7287
Candida VitaleDivision of Hematology, AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.
Marta CosciaDivision of Hematology, AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.
Agostino FestaDipartimento di Biochimica, Biofisica e Patologia Generale, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Napoli, Italy.
Nicola Matteo Dario Di MinnoDepartment of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Regional Reference Centre for Coagulation Disorders, "Federico II" University, Napoli, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8059-3819
Vincenzo De FeoDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1070-3207
Michele CaragliaDipartimento di Biochimica, Biofisica e Patologia Generale, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Napoli, Italy.
Gioacchino CalapaiDepartment of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphological and Functional Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8116-4821
Luca LaurentiHematology Institute, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.
Pellegrino MustoScientific Direction, IRCCS Cancer Referral Center of Basilicata, Rionero in Vulture, Italy.
Giovanni Di MinnoDepartment of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Regional Reference Centre for Coagulation Disorders, "Federico II" University, Napoli, Italy.
Daniela FenoglioCentre of Excellence for Biomedical Research, Department of Internal Medicine, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria San Martino-IST-Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulatory T cells (Tregs) have a fundamental function in monitoring the immune homeostasis in healthy individuals. In cancer and, in particular, in hematological malignancies, Tregs exert a major immunosuppressive activity, thus playing a critical role in tumor cell growth, proliferation, and survival. Here, we summarize published data on the prognostic significance of Tregs in hematological malignancies and show that they are highly conflicting. The heterogeneity of the experimental approaches that were used explains-at least in part-the discordant results reported by different groups that have investigated the role of Tregs in cancer. In fact, different tissues have been studied (i.e., peripheral blood, bone marrow, and lymph node), applying different methods (i.e., flow cytometry versus immunohistochemistry, whole blood versus isolated peripheral blood mononuclear cells versus depletion of CD25

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AnimalsBone Marrow CellsFlow CytometryHematologic NeoplasmsHumansImmunohistochemistryLymphocyte DepletionPrognosisReference StandardsT-Lymphocytes, Regulatory

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PMCPMC5752970

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