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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Blocking CXCR4 alleviates desmoplasia, increases T-lymphocyte infiltration, and improves immunotherapy in metastatic breast cancer.

Ivy X Chen, Vikash P Chauhan, Jessica Posada, Mei R Ng, Michelle W Wu, Pichet Adstamongkonkul, Peigen Huang, Neal Lindeman, Robert Langer, Rakesh K Jain

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 244 papers.

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244citing papers in PubMed
25.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

244 citing papers in PubMed, 393 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ivy X ChenEdwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114.
Vikash P ChauhanEdwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114.
Jessica PosadaEdwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114.
Mei R NgEdwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114.
Michelle W WuEdwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114.
Pichet AdstamongkonkulHarvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Peigen HuangEdwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114.
Neal LindemanDepartment of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115.
Robert LangerKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0003-4255-0492
Rakesh K JainEdwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114; jain@steele.mgh.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · USBrigham and Women's Hospital · USMassachusetts Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Vascular Normalization: Rolse of Perivascular CellsP01CA080124 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI FUKUMURA, DAI · 2000 to 2016
$35.0M
VASCULAR, PULMONARY AND RENAL INJURYT32HL007627 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI GIMBRONE, MICHAEL A, MITCHELL, RICHARD N · 1985 to 2019
$12.7M
Dissecting Pediatric Brain Tumor Microenvironment to Improve TreatmentR35CA197743 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI JAIN, RAKESH K. · 2015 to 2020
$5.7M
Training Program in Pathophysiology of Solid TumorsT32CA073479 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI JAIN, RAKESH K. · 1998 to 2012
$3.0M
Reprogramming PDAC tumor microenvironment to improve immunotherapyU01CA224348 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BOUCHER, YVES, JAIN, RAKESH K. · 2017 to 2021
$2.9M
Viral Vectors in Tumors: Effects of Taxol and RadiationR01CA098706 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BOUCHER, YVES · 2003 to 2013
$2.8M
Reengineering obesity-induced abnormal microenvironment to improve PDAC treatmentR01CA208205 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI FUKUMURA, DAI, JAIN, RAKESH K. · 2017 to 2020
$2.2M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA080124NCI NIH HHS R01 CA098706NCI NIH HHS R01 CA208205NCI NIH HHS R35 CA197743NCI NIH HHS T32 CA073479NCI NIH HHS U01 CA224348NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007627
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metastatic breast cancers (mBCs) are largely resistant to immune checkpoint blockade, but the mechanisms remain unclear. Primary breast cancers are characterized by a dense fibrotic stroma, which is considered immunosuppressive in multiple malignancies, but the stromal composition of breast cancer metastases and its role in immunosuppression are largely unknown. Here we show that liver and lung metastases of human breast cancers tend to be highly fibrotic, and unlike primary breast tumors, they exclude cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs). Unbiased analysis of the The Cancer Genome Atlas database of human breast tumors revealed a set of genes that are associated with stromal T-lymphocyte exclusion. Among these, we focused on

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ImmunotherapyAnimalsBreast NeoplasmsFemaleHumansMiceNeoplasm MetastasisReceptors, CXCR4T-LymphocytesTumor MicroenvironmentCXCR4 protein, humanReceptors, CXCR4carcinoma-associated fibroblastsimmune checkpoint blockademetastatic breast cancertumor desmoplasiatumor microenvironment

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PMID30700545
PMCPMC6410779
OpenAlexW2911526204

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