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ArticleVaccines2019

Breast Cancer Cells and PD-1/PD-L1 Blockade Upregulate the Expression of PD-1, CTLA-4, TIM-3 and LAG-3 Immune Checkpoints in CD4

Reem Saleh, Salman M Toor, Sarah Khalaf, Eyad Elkord

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Article in Vaccines, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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67citing papers in PubMed
6.0field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

67 citing papers in PubMed, 115 citations in OpenAlex.

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7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Reem SalehCancer Research Center, Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation (QF), Doha 34110, Qatar. rsaleh@hbku.edu.qa.
Salman M ToorCancer Research Center, Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation (QF), Doha 34110, Qatar. mstoor@hbku.edu.qa.
Sarah KhalafCollege of Health & Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha 34110, Qatar. skhalaf@mail.hbku.edu.qa.
Eyad ElkordCancer Research Center, Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation (QF), Doha 34110, Qatar. eelkord@hbku.edu.qa.
Hamad bin Khalifa University · QAUniversity of Manchester · GB

Funding

Qatar Foundation VR04
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

anti-PD-1anti-PD-L1breast cancerimmune checkpointsTregs

Identifiers

PMID31614877
PMCPMC6963740
OpenAlexW2979589768

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Registered trials

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