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ReviewPharmaceutics2020

Dendritic Cells and Immunogenic Cancer Cell Death: A Combination for Improving Antitumor Immunity.

María Julia Lamberti, Annunziata Nigro, Fátima María Mentucci, Natalia Belén Rumie Vittar, Vincenzo Casolaro, Jessica Dal Col

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In one paragraph

Review in Pharmaceutics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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53citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.9field-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

53 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 91 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

María Julia LambertiDepartamento de Biología Molecular, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Río Cuarto 5800, Córdoba, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0001-7162-0520
Annunziata NigroDepartment of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry 'Scuola Medica Salernitana', University of Salerno, 84081 Baronissi, Salerno, Italy.
Fátima María MentucciDepartamento de Biología Molecular, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Río Cuarto 5800, Córdoba, Argentina.
Natalia Belén Rumie VittarDepartamento de Biología Molecular, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Río Cuarto 5800, Córdoba, Argentina.
Vincenzo CasolaroDepartment of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry 'Scuola Medica Salernitana', University of Salerno, 84081 Baronissi, Salerno, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9810-0488
Jessica Dal ColDepartment of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry 'Scuola Medica Salernitana', University of Salerno, 84081 Baronissi, Salerno, Italy.
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas · ARUniversity of Salerno · IT

Funding

Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica PICT-2016-0534Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica PICT-2017-1755Fondazione con il Sud Brains2South 2015 PDR-0224Italian Ministry of Health GR-2011-02350476Regione Campania, POR FESR 2014/20 RarePlatNet Project
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The safety and feasibility of dendritic cell (DC)-based immunotherapies in cancer management have been well documented after more than twenty-five years of experimentation, and, by now, undeniably accepted. On the other hand, it is equally evident that DC-based vaccination as monotherapy did not achieve the clinical benefits that were predicted in a number of promising preclinical studies. The current availability of several immune modulatory and targeting approaches opens the way to many potential therapeutic combinations. In particular, the evidence that the immune-related effects that are elicited by immunogenic cell death (ICD)-inducing therapies are strictly associated with DC engagement and activation strongly support the combination of ICD-inducing and DC-based immunotherapies. In this review, we examine the data in recent studies employing tumor cells, killed through ICD induction, in the formulation of anticancer DC-based vaccines. In addition, we discuss the opportunity to combine pharmacologic or physical therapeutic approaches that can promote ICD in vivo with in situ DC vaccination.

Indexed as

cancer treatmentdendritic cell-based vaccinationimmunogenic cell deathimmunotherapy

Identifiers

PMID32178288
PMCPMC7151083
OpenAlexW3010829434

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