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Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells: Major Figures that Shape the Immunosuppressive and Angiogenic Network in Cancer.

Eleni-Kyriaki Vetsika, Aristeidis Koukos, Athanasios Kotsakis

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Review in Cells, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
79citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

79 citing papers in PubMed, 118 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 3 institutions in 1 country.

Eleni-Kyriaki VetsikaDepartment of Medicine, pMEDgr, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Aristeidis KoukosLaboratory of Translational Oncology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, 71003 Heraklion, Greece.
Athanasios KotsakisDepartment of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, 41334 Larissa, Greece.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRUniversity Hospital of Larissa · GRUniversity of Crete · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) constitute a vast population of immature myeloid cells implicated in various conditions. Most notably, their role in cancer is of great complexity. They exert immunosuppressive functions like hampering cancer immunity mediated by T lymphocytes and natural killer cells, while simultaneously they can recruit T regulatory cells to further promote immunosuppression, thus shielding tumor cells against the immune defenses. In addition, they were shown to support tumor invasion and metastasis by inducing vascularization. Yet again, in order to exert their angiogenic activities, they do have at their disposal a variety of occasionally overlapping mechanisms, mainly driven by VEGF/JAK/STAT signaling. In this concept, they have risen to be a rather attractive target for therapies, including depletion or maturation, so as to overcome cancer immunity and suppress angiogenic activity. Even though, many studies have been conducted to better understand these cells, there is much to be done yet. This article hopes to shed some light on the paradoxal complexity of these cells, while elucidating some of the key features of MDSCs in relation to immunosuppression and, most importantly, to the vascularization processes, along with current therapeutic options in cancer, in relation to MDSC depletion.

Indexed as

Histone Deacetylase InhibitorsHumansImmune ToleranceImmunosuppression TherapyKiller Cells, NaturalMyeloid CellsMyeloid-Derived Suppressor CellsNeoplasmsNeovascularization, PhysiologicReceptors, Vascular Endothelial Growth FactorSignal TransductionT-LymphocytesTumor MicroenvironmentHistone Deacetylase InhibitorsReceptors, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factorangiogenesiscancer immunologyimmunosuppressionmyeloid-derived suppressor cellstumor microenvironmentvascular endothelial growth factor receptor

Identifiers

PMID31847487
PMCPMC6953061
OpenAlexW2994769926

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