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ArticleOncoimmunology2020

Checkpoint molecules coordinately restrain hyperactivated effector T cells in the tumor microenvironment.

Min Yang, Wenwen Du, Lixian Yi, Shaoxian Wu, Chunyan He, Wensi Zhai, Cuihua Yue, Runzi Sun, Ashley V Menk, Greg M Delgoffe and 2 more

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Article in Oncoimmunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 48 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

12 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Min YangDepartment of Tumor Biological Treatment, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou China.
Wenwen DuDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, USA.
Lixian YiDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, USA.
Shaoxian WuDepartment of Tumor Biological Treatment, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou China.
Chunyan HeDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, USA.
Wensi ZhaiDepartment of Tumor Biological Treatment, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou China.
Cuihua YueDepartment of Tumor Biological Treatment, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou China.
Runzi SunDepartment of Tumor Biological Treatment, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou China.
Ashley V MenkTumor Microenvironment Center, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA USA.
Greg M DelgoffeDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, USA.
Jingting JiangDepartment of Tumor Biological Treatment, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou China.
Binfeng LuDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, USA.
University of Pittsburgh · USSoochow University · CNUPMC Hillman Cancer Center · USSoochow University · TWSuzhou Vocational Health College · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) immunotherapy has prolonged overall survival for cancer patients but the response rates are low. The resistance to ICB is likely due to compensatory upregulation of additional immune inhibitory molecules. In this study, we first systematically examined Tim-3 expression in immune cells in mouse tumors and found that Tim-3 was specifically up-regulated in a large number of Treg, conventional CD4

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Lymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingTumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesHepatitis A Virus Cellular Receptor 2HumansMiceProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorHepatitis A Virus Cellular Receptor 2Programmed Cell Death 1 Receptorcombination therapyexhaustionLag-3PD-1Tim-3tumor immunotherapy

Identifiers

PMID32076578
PMCPMC6999836
OpenAlexW3003392030

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