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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2018

Cell Therapy in Organ Transplantation: Our Experience on the Clinical Translation of Regulatory T Cells.

Niloufar Safinia, Nathali Grageda, Cristiano Scottà, Sarah Thirkell, Laura J Fry, Trishan Vaikunthanathan, Robert I Lechler, Giovanna Lombardi

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
35citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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

35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Highly purified and functionally stableFrontiers in immunology · 2023
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  15. CD4Frontiers in immunology · 2022
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  16. Cell-Based Regeneration and Treatment of Liver Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  18. Feasibility, long-term safety, and immune monitoring of regulatory T cell therapy in living donor kidney transplant recipients.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2021
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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

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Niloufar SafiniaDepartment of Immunoregulation and Immune Intervention, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Nathali GragedaDepartment of Immunoregulation and Immune Intervention, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Cristiano ScottàDepartment of Immunoregulation and Immune Intervention, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Sarah ThirkellDepartment of Immunoregulation and Immune Intervention, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Laura J FryClinical Research Facility GMP Unit, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Trishan VaikunthanathanThe Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Robert I LechlerDepartment of Immunoregulation and Immune Intervention, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Giovanna LombardiDepartment of Immunoregulation and Immune Intervention, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
King's College London · GBImperial College London · GBQueen Mary University of London · GB

Funding

British Heart Foundation RG/13/12/30395Medical Research Council G1002000Medical Research Council MR/J006742/1Medical Research Council MR/K025538/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Solid organ transplantation is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage organ dysfunction. Despite improvements in short-term outcome, long-term outcome is suboptimal due to the increased morbidity and mortality associated with the toxicity of immunosuppressive regimens and chronic rejection (1-5). As such, the attention of the transplant community has focused on the development of novel therapeutic strategies to achieve allograft tolerance, a state whereby the immune system of the recipient can be re-educated to accept the allograft, averting the need for long-term immunosuppression. Indeed, reports of "operational" tolerance, whereby the recipient is off all immunosuppressive drugs and maintaining good graft function, is well documented in the literature for both liver and kidney transplantations (6-8). However, this phenomenon is rare and in the setting of liver transplantation has been shown to occur late after transplantation, with the majority of patients maintained on life-long immunosupression to prevent allograft rejection (9). As such, significant research has focused on immune regulation in the context of organ transplantation with regulatory T cells (Tregs) identified as cells holding considerable promise in this endeavor. This review will provide a brief introduction to human Tregs, their phenotypic and functional characterization and focuses on our experience to date at the clinical translation of Treg immunotherapy in the setting of solid organ transplantation.

Indexed as

Cell- and Tissue-Based TherapyOrgan TransplantationAllograftsAnimalsGraft RejectionHumansImmunotherapy, AdoptiveT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryTranslational Research, BiomedicalTransplantation Tolerancecell therapyclinical trialsgood manufacturing practiceregulatory T cellstechnical transfertransplantation

Identifiers

PMID29535728
PMCPMC5834909
OpenAlexW2789270618

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