Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30936059›Full record

Trial reportBlood advances2019

Functional analysis of clinical response to low-dose IL-2 in patients with refractory chronic graft-versus-host disease.

Jennifer S Whangbo, Haesook T Kim, Sarah Nikiforow, John Koreth, Ana C Alho, Bryn Falahee, Soomin Kim, Katharine Dusenbury, Marie J Fields, Carol G Reynolds and 7 more

Open access · goldAbstract readClinical Trial, Phase II
In one paragraph

Trial report in Blood advances, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Association Between Peripheral IL-2Journal of clinical medicine · 2026
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  4. Graft-Versus-Host Disease Mouse Models: A Clinical-Translational Perspective.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  8. IL-2-based approaches to Treg enhancement.Clinical and experimental immunology · 2023
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  9. Low-dose IL-2 reduces IL-21Nature communications · 2022
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  19. Biomarkers for Allogeneic HCT Outcomes.Frontiers in immunology · 2020
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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

17 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jennifer S WhangboDivision of Hematology-Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
Haesook T KimDepartment of Biostatistics & Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA.
Sarah NikiforowDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA.
John KorethDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA.
Ana C AlhoDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA.
Bryn FalaheeDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA.
Soomin KimDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA.
Katharine DusenburyDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA.
Marie J FieldsDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA.
Carol G ReynoldsDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA.
Edwin P AlyeaDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA.
Philippe ArmandDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA.
Corey S CutlerDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA.
Vincent T HoDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA.
Joseph H AntinDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA.
Robert J SoifferDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA.
Jerome RitzDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston MA.ORCID 0000-0001-5526-4669
Harvard University · USBoston Children's Hospital · US

Funding

University of Washington Medical Scientist Training Program: MD/PhDT32GM007266 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI HORWITZ, MARSHALL S. · 1985 to 2023
$30.4M
Project 3: Humoral Targets and B Cell Biology in Chronic Graft-vs.-Host DiseaseP01CA142106 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI RITZ, JEROME · 2009 to 2019
$17.5M
Single Cell and ImmunogenomicsP01CA229092 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI RITZ, JEROME · 2019 to 2023
$13.8M
Manipulation of Immune Responsiveness after Hematopoietic Cell TransplantationR01CA183559 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI RITZ, JEROME, SOIFFER, ROBERT JON · 2013 to 2017
$3.7M
Reconstitution of Regulatory T Cells After Stem Cell TransplantationR01CA183560 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI RITZ, JEROME, SOIFFER, ROBERT JON · 2013 to 2017
$2.5M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA142106NCI NIH HHS P01 CA229092NCI NIH HHS R01 CA183559NCI NIH HHS R01 CA183560NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007266
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) have a paucity of regulatory CD4 T cells (CD4Tregs) that mediate peripheral tolerance. In clinical trials, daily low-dose interleukin-2 (IL-2) has been administered safely for prolonged periods in patients with steroid-refractory cGVHD. Peripheral CD4Tregs expand dramatically in all patients during IL-2 therapy but clinical improvement was observed in ∼50% of patients. Here, we examined the impact of low-dose IL-2 therapy on functional T-cell markers and the T-cell repertoire within CD4Tregs, conventional CD4 T cells (CD4Tcons), and CD8

Indexed as

Drug ResistanceCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCell ProliferationChronic DiseaseFemaleGenetic VariationGraft vs Host DiseaseHumansImmune ToleranceInterleukin-2Lymphocyte CountMaleMiddle AgedReceptors, Antigen, T-CellSteroidsInterleukin-2Receptors, Antigen, T-CellSteroids

Identifiers

PMID30936059
PMCPMC6457229
OpenAlexW2932759555

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