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ReviewCellular & molecular immunology2020

Targeting innate sensing in the tumor microenvironment to improve immunotherapy.

Zhida Liu, Chuanhui Han, Yang-Xin Fu

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Review in Cellular & molecular immunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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52citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.4field-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

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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 102 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Engineering Heterogeneous Tumor Models for Biomedical Applications.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhida LiuDepartment of Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75235, USA.
Chuanhui HanDepartment of Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75235, USA.
Yang-Xin FuDepartment of Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75235, USA. Yang-Xin.Fu@UTSouthwestern.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4809-825X
Southwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The innate immune sensing pathways play critical roles in the defense against pathogen infection, but their roles in cancer immunosurveillance and cancer therapies are less defined. We propose that defective innate immune sensing inside the tumor microenvironment might limit T-cell responses to immunotherapy. A recent mechanistic understanding of conventional therapies revealed that both innate immune sensing and T-cell responses are essential for optimal antitumor efficacy. T-cell-based immunotherapy, particularly immune checkpoint blockade, has achieved great success in reactivating antitumor immune responses to lead to tumor regression, but only in a small fraction of patients. Therefore, incorporating conventional therapy that can increase innate sensing and immunotherapy should lead to promising strategies for cancer patients. Here, we review the innate sensing pathways related to cancer initiation/progression and therapies, summarize the recent key findings in innate immune sensing related to conventional therapies, evaluate current combination strategies, and highlight the potential issues of combinational therapies in terms of antitumor efficacy and toxicities.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyAnimalsHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsImmunity, CellularImmunity, InnateNeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsConventional therapyImmunotherapyInnate immune sensing

Identifiers

PMID31844141
PMCPMC6952427
OpenAlexW2995662240

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