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ReviewBritish journal of cancer2019

Teaching an old dog new tricks: next-generation CAR T cells.

Nicholas Tokarew, Justyna Ogonek, Stefan Endres, Michael von Bergwelt-Baildon, Sebastian Kobold

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In one paragraph

Review in British journal of cancer, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 259 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
259citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
11.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

259 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 424 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nicholas TokarewCenter of Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPS-M) and Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Klinikum der Universität München, Lindwurmstrasse 2a, 80337, Munich, Germany.
Justyna OgonekCenter of Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPS-M) and Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Klinikum der Universität München, Lindwurmstrasse 2a, 80337, Munich, Germany.
Stefan EndresCenter of Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPS-M) and Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Klinikum der Universität München, Lindwurmstrasse 2a, 80337, Munich, Germany.
Michael von Bergwelt-BaildonDepartment of Medicine III, Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany.
Sebastian KoboldCenter of Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPS-M) and Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Klinikum der Universität München, Lindwurmstrasse 2a, 80337, Munich, Germany. Sebastian.kobold@med.uni-muenchen.de.
Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich · DELMU Klinikum · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adoptive T cell therapy (ACT) refers to the therapeutic use of T cells. T cells genetically engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) constitute the most clinically advanced form of ACT approved to date for the treatment of CD19-positive leukaemias and lymphomas. CARs are synthetic receptors that are able to confer antigen-binding and activating functions on T cells with the aim of therapeutically targeting cancer cells. Several factors are essential for CAR T cell therapy to be effective, such as recruitment, activation, expansion and persistence of bioengineered T cells at the tumour site. Despite the advances made in CAR T cell therapy, however, most tumour entities still escape immune detection and elimination. A number of strategies counteracting these problems will need to be addressed in order to render T cell therapy effective in more situations than currently possible. Non-haematological tumours are also the subject of active investigation, but ACT has so far shown only marginal success rates in these cases. New approaches are needed to enhance the ability of ACT to target solid tumours without increasing toxicity, by improving recognition, infiltration, and persistence within tumours, as well as an enhanced resistance to the suppressive tumour microenvironment.

Indexed as

Antigens, CD19Antigens, NeoplasmHumansImmunotherapy, AdoptiveLeukemiaReceptors, Chimeric AntigenT-LymphocytesTumor MicroenvironmentAntigens, CD19Antigens, NeoplasmReceptors, Chimeric Antigen

Identifiers

PMID30413825
PMCPMC6325111
OpenAlexW2900136343

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