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ArticleAdvanced healthcare materials2019

Evaluating CAR-T Cell Therapy in a Hypoxic 3D Tumor Model.

Yuta Ando, Elizabeth L Siegler, Hoang P Ta, Gunce E Cinay, Hao Zhou, Kimberly A Gorrell, Hannah Au, Bethany M Jarvis, Pin Wang, Keyue Shen

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Article in Advanced healthcare materials, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

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71citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

71 citing papers in PubMed, 114 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yuta AndoDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
Elizabeth L SieglerDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
Hoang P TaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
Gunce E CinayDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
Hao ZhouDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
Kimberly A GorrellDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
Hannah AuDepartment of Immunology and Pathogenesis, College of Letters and Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Bethany M JarvisDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
Pin WangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
Keyue ShenDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9605-1635
University of Southern California · USBerkeley College · US

Funding

USC/NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER (CORE) SUPPORTP30CA014089 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI MYLES G COCKBURN · 1985 to 2026
$181.4M
(PQ5) Microenvironmental Regulation of Mitochondrial Heterogeneity in Cancer MetastasisR01CA220012 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI SHEN, KEYUE · 2019 to 2023
$2.2M
Artificial Stromal Cell for Hematopoietic Stem Cell ExpansionR21EB024748 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI SHEN, KEYUE · 2017 to 2019
$637k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014089NCI NIH HHS R01 CA220012NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB024748Phi Beta Psi Charity TrustRose Hills FellowshipUSC Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Fellowship
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite its revolutionary success in hematological malignancies, chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy faces disappointing clinical results in solid tumors. The poor efficacy has been partially attributed to the lack of understanding in how CAR-T cells function in a solid tumor microenvironment. Hypoxia plays a critical role in cancer progression and immune editing, which potentially results in solid tumors escaping immunosurveillance and CAR-T cell-mediated cytotoxicity. Mechanistic studies of CAR-T cell biology in a physiological environment has been limited by the complexity of tumor-immune interactions in clinical and animal models, as well as by a lack of reliable in vitro models. A microdevice platform that recapitulates a 3D tumor section with a gradient of oxygen and integrates fluidic channels surrounding the tumor for CAR-T cell delivery is engineered. The design allows for the evaluation of CAR-T cell cytotoxicity and infiltration in the heterogeneous oxygen landscape of in vivo solid tumors at a previously unachievable scale in vitro.

Indexed as

Antigens, NeoplasmCell- and Tissue-Based TherapyCell LineCell Line, TumorHumansHypoxiaNeoplasmsReceptors, Antigen, T-CellReceptors, Chimeric AntigenT-LymphocytesTumor MicroenvironmentAntigens, NeoplasmReceptors, Antigen, T-CellReceptors, Chimeric Antigenchimeric antigen receptorshypoxiaimmune checkpointsimmunotherapyovarian cancersolid tumors

Identifiers

PMID30734529
PMCPMC6448565
OpenAlexW2912817458

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