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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2019

Clinically Relevant Immune Responses against Cytomegalovirus: Implications for Precision Medicine.

Joana R Lérias, Georgia Paraschoudi, Inês Silva, João Martins, Eric de Sousa, Carolina Condeço, Nuno Figueiredo, Carlos Carvalho, Ernest Dodoo, Elke Jäger and 2 more

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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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

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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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

12 authors.

Joana R LériasImmunoSurgery Unit, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Av. Brasília, 1400-038 Lisbon, Portugal. joana.lerias@research.fchampalimaud.org.ORCID 0000-0002-9874-5259
Georgia ParaschoudiImmunoSurgery Unit, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Av. Brasília, 1400-038 Lisbon, Portugal. georgia.paraschoudi@research.fchampalimaud.org.
Inês SilvaImmunoSurgery Unit, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Av. Brasília, 1400-038 Lisbon, Portugal. ines.silva@research.fchampalimaud.org.
João MartinsImmunoSurgery Unit, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Av. Brasília, 1400-038 Lisbon, Portugal. joao.martins@research.fchampalimaud.org.
Eric de SousaImmunoSurgery Unit, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Av. Brasília, 1400-038 Lisbon, Portugal. eric.desousa@research.fchampalimaud.org.ORCID 0000-0001-6582-7365
Carolina CondeçoImmunoSurgery Unit, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Av. Brasília, 1400-038 Lisbon, Portugal. carolina.condeco@research.fchampalimaud.org.
Nuno FigueiredoDigestive Unit, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Av. Brasília, 1400-038 Lisbon, Portugal. nuno.figueiredo@fundacaochampalimaud.pt.ORCID 0000-0002-5582-0933
Carlos CarvalhoDigestive Unit, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Av. Brasília, 1400-038 Lisbon, Portugal. carlos.carvalho@fundacaochampalimaud.pt.
Ernest DodooDepartment of Oncology and Haematology, Krankenhaus Nordwest, Steinbacher Hohl 2-26, 60488 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Ernest.Dodoo@protonmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-9886-0126
Elke JägerDepartment of Oncology and Haematology, Krankenhaus Nordwest, Steinbacher Hohl 2-26, 60488 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. EJ200161@aol.com.ORCID 0000-0002-6734-986X
Martin RaoImmunoSurgery Unit, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Av. Brasília, 1400-038 Lisbon, Portugal. martin.rao@research.fchampalimaud.org.
Markus MaeurerImmunoSurgery Unit, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Av. Brasília, 1400-038 Lisbon, Portugal. markus.maeurer@fundacaochampalimaud.pt.

Funding

Champalimaud Foundation n.a.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immune responses to human cytomegalovirus (CMV) can be used to assess immune fitness in an individual. Further to its clinical significance in posttransplantation settings, emerging clinical and translational studies provide examples of immune correlates of protection pertaining to anti-CMV immune responses in the context of cancer or infectious diseases, e.g., tuberculosis. In this viewpoint, we provide a brief overview about CMV-directed immune reactivity and immune fitness in a clinical context and incorporate some of our own findings obtained from peripheral blood or tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) from patients with advanced cancer. Observations in patients with solid cancers whose lesions contain both CMV and tumour antigen-specific T-cell subsets are highlighted, due to a possible CMV-associated "bystander" effect in amplifying local inflammation and subsequent tumour rejection. The role of tumour-associated antibodies recognising diverse CMV-derived epitopes is also discussed in light of anti-cancer immune responses. We discuss here the use of anti-CMV immune responses as a theranostic tool-combining immunodiagnostics with a personalised therapeutic potential-to improve treatment outcomes in oncological indications.

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AnimalsCytomegalovirusCytomegalovirus InfectionsHumansImmunityImmunotherapyNeoplasmsPrecision Medicineantibodiescancercytomegalovirusimmune responsesimmunotherapyinterferon gammaT cells

Identifiers

PMID31018546
PMCPMC6514820

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