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ReviewMedical sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Role of Polyamines in Immune Cell Functions.

Rebecca S Hesterberg, John L Cleveland, Pearlie K Epling-Burnette

Registry-linked trialOpen access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06249620 (A Randomized Controlled Trial of Oral Suplementation With AM3, Hesperidin and Spermidine on Immunity Response and Biological Age in Healthy Volunteers.), which is not on this map. Cited by 83 papers.

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83citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT06249620 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Oral Suplementation With AM3, Hesperidin and Spermidine on Immunity Response and Biological Age in Healthy Volunteers.

TypeinterventionalSponsorIndustrial Farmacéutica Cantabria, S.A.Ran2022 to 2022Enrolled41ConditionsHealthyArmsInmunoferon, Placebo
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

83 citing papers in PubMed, 131 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Integrating Metabolic Modulation and Nanomedicine for Cancer Immunotherapy.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  17. Antitumor potential of polyamines in cancer.Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica · 2025
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23 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rebecca S HesterbergUniversity of South Florida Cancer Biology Graduate Program, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL 33620, USA. Rebecca.Hesterberg@moffitt.org.
John L ClevelandDepartment of Tumor Biology, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL 33612, USA. John.Cleveland@moffitt.org.
Pearlie K Epling-BurnetteDepartment Immunology, PharmD, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, 23033 SRB, Tampa, FL 33612, USA. Pearlie.Burnette@moffitt.org.
Moffitt Cancer Center · USUniversity of South Florida · US

Funding

Molecular Mechanisms of Immune Therapy for Bone Marrow FailureI01CX000114 · VA · JAMES A. HALEY VA MEDICAL CENTER · PI BURNETTE, PEARLIE K · 2009 to 2019
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CSRD VA I01 CX000114
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The immune system is remarkably responsive to a myriad of invading microorganisms and provides continuous surveillance against tissue damage and developing tumor cells. To achieve these diverse functions, multiple soluble and cellular components must react in an orchestrated cascade of events to control the specificity, magnitude and persistence of the immune response. Numerous catabolic and anabolic processes are involved in this process, and prominent roles for l-arginine and l-glutamine catabolism have been described, as these amino acids serve as precursors of nitric oxide, creatine, agmatine, tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediates, nucleotides and other amino acids, as well as for ornithine, which is used to synthesize putrescine and the polyamines spermidine and spermine. Polyamines have several purported roles and high levels of polyamines are manifest in tumor cells as well in autoreactive B- and T-cells in autoimmune diseases. In the tumor microenvironment, l-arginine catabolism by both tumor cells and suppressive myeloid cells is known to dampen cytotoxic T-cell functions suggesting there might be links between polyamines and T-cell suppression. Here, we review studies suggesting roles of polyamines in normal immune cell function and highlight their connections to autoimmunity and anti-tumor immune cell function.

Indexed as

autoimmunityB-lymphocytesepigeneticsimmunitymetabolismT-lymphocytestumor immunity

Identifiers

PMID29517999
PMCPMC5872179
OpenAlexW2789967920

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