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ReviewCancers2019

Lentiviral Vectors as Tools for the Study and Treatment of Glioblastoma.

Claudia Del Vecchio, Arianna Calistri, Cristina Parolin, Carla Mucignat-Caretta

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Review in Cancers, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  5. Cell and gene therapy in neuro-oncology.Handbook of clinical neurology · 2024
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  7. Gene Therapy for High Grade Glioma: The Clinical Experience.Expert opinion on biological therapy · 2023
    Review
  8. Article
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  10. Lentiviral-Induced Spinal Cord Gliomas in Rat Model.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  11. Current Approaches for Glioma Gene Therapy and Virotherapy.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Claudia Del VecchioDepartment of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, 35121 Padova, Italy. claudia.delvecchio@unipd.it.
Arianna CalistriDepartment of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, 35121 Padova, Italy. arianna.calistri@unipd.it.
Cristina ParolinDepartment of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, 35121 Padova, Italy. cristina.parolin@unipd.it.
Carla Mucignat-CarettaDepartment of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, 35121 Padova, Italy. carla.mucignat@unipd.it.ORCID 0000-0001-5307-0414
University of Padua · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastoma (GBM) has the worst prognosis among brain tumors, hence basic biology, preclinical, and clinical studies are necessary to design effective strategies to defeat this disease. Gene transfer vectors derived from the most-studied lentivirus-the Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1-have wide application in dissecting GBM specific features to identify potential therapeutic targets. Last-generation lentiviruses (LV), highly improved in safety profile and gene transfer capacity, are also largely employed as delivery systems of therapeutic molecules to be employed in gene therapy (GT) approaches. LV were initially used in GT protocols aimed at the expression of suicide factors to induce GBM cell death. Subsequently, LV were adopted to either express small noncoding RNAs to affect different aspects of GBM biology or to overcome the resistance to both chemo- and radiotherapy that easily develop in this tumor after initial therapy. Newer frontiers include adoption of LV for engineering T cells to express chimeric antigen receptors recognizing specific GBM antigens, or for transducing specific cell types that, due to their biological properties, can function as carriers of therapeutic molecules to the cancer mass. Finally, LV allow the setting up of improved animal models crucial for the validation of GBM specific therapies.

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animal modelsgene therapyglioblastomalentiviral vectors

Identifiers

PMID30909628
PMCPMC6468594
OpenAlexW2923350894

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