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ArticleCancer science2018

Reinforce the antitumor activity of CD8

Shogo Nabe, Takeshi Yamada, Junpei Suzuki, Koji Toriyama, Toshiaki Yasuoka, Makoto Kuwahara, Atsushi Shiraishi, Katsuto Takenaka, Masaki Yasukawa, Masakatsu Yamashita

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Article in Cancer science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 124 papers.

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124citing papers in PubMed
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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

124 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  5. CD8Cancer cell international · 2026
    Review
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  9. Review
  10. Metabolic Checkpoints in CD8International journal of biological sciences · 2026
    Review
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  12. DON-Loaded Nanodrug-T Cell Conjugates With PD-L1 Blockade for Solid Tumor Therapy.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
    Article
  13. Article
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  17. Targeting tumor metabolism to augment CD8Journal of pharmaceutical analysis · 2025
    Review
  18. Article
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  20. Article

64 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

10 authors.

Shogo NabeDepartment of Hematology, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University, Toon, Japan.
Takeshi YamadaDepartment of Infection and Host Defenses, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University, Toon, Japan.
Junpei SuzukiDepartment of Hematology, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University, Toon, Japan.
Koji ToriyamaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University, Toon, Japan.
Toshiaki YasuokaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University, Toon, Japan.
Makoto KuwaharaDepartment of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University, Toon, Japan.
Atsushi ShiraishiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University, Toon, Japan.
Katsuto TakenakaDepartment of Hematology, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University, Toon, Japan.
Masaki YasukawaDepartment of Hematology, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University, Toon, Japan.
Masakatsu YamashitaDepartment of Infection and Host Defenses, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University, Toon, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8975-3513

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 117K16853Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 17H04086Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 17H05794Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 17K08887Naito FoundationTakeda Science FoundationWaksman Foundation of Japan
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The antitumor activity of activated CD8+ T cells in the tumor microenvironment seems to be limited due to their being metabolically unfit. This metabolic unfitness is closely associated with T-cell exhaustion and impairment of memory formation, which are barriers to successful antitumor adoptive immunotherapy. We therefore assessed the role of glutamine metabolism in the antitumor activity of CD8

Indexed as

AnimalsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCell Culture TechniquesCell Line, TumorCulture MediaGlutamineHumansImmunotherapy, AdoptiveMiceThymomaThymus NeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentXenograft Model Antitumor AssaysCulture MediaGlutamineadoptive immunotherapyantitumorCD8+ T cellsglutaminnolysisT cell memory

Identifiers

PMID30302856
PMCPMC6272119

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