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Clinically Relevant Chemotherapeutics Have the Ability to Induce Immunogenic Cell Death in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

Tal Flieswasser, Jinthe Van Loenhout, Laurie Freire Boullosa, Astrid Van den Eynde, Jorrit De Waele, Jonas Van Audenaerde, Filip Lardon, Evelien Smits, Patrick Pauwels, Julie Jacobs

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Article in Cells, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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36citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tal FlieswasserCenter for Oncological Research (CORE), Integrated Personalized and Precision Oncology Network (IPPON), 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.
Jinthe Van LoenhoutCenter for Oncological Research (CORE), Integrated Personalized and Precision Oncology Network (IPPON), 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-8576-5640
Laurie Freire BoullosaCenter for Oncological Research (CORE), Integrated Personalized and Precision Oncology Network (IPPON), 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.
Astrid Van den EyndeCenter for Oncological Research (CORE), Integrated Personalized and Precision Oncology Network (IPPON), 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.
Jorrit De WaeleCenter for Oncological Research (CORE), Integrated Personalized and Precision Oncology Network (IPPON), 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-9999-6156
Jonas Van AudenaerdeCenter for Oncological Research (CORE), Integrated Personalized and Precision Oncology Network (IPPON), 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-5619-1913
Filip LardonCenter for Oncological Research (CORE), Integrated Personalized and Precision Oncology Network (IPPON), 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.
Evelien SmitsCenter for Oncological Research (CORE), Integrated Personalized and Precision Oncology Network (IPPON), 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-9255-3435
Patrick PauwelsCenter for Oncological Research (CORE), Integrated Personalized and Precision Oncology Network (IPPON), 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.
Julie JacobsCenter for Oncological Research (CORE), Integrated Personalized and Precision Oncology Network (IPPON), 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-2873-3364
Antwerp University Hospital · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The concept of immunogenic cell death (ICD) has emerged as a cornerstone of therapy-induced anti-tumor immunity. To this end, the following chemotherapies were evaluated for their ability to induce ICD in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cell lines: docetaxel, carboplatin, cisplatin, oxaliplatin and mafosfamide. The ICD hallmarks ATP, ecto-calreticulin, HMGB1, phagocytosis and maturation status of dendritic cells (DCs) were assessed in vitro. Furthermore, an in vivo vaccination assay on C57BL/6J mice was performed to validate our in vitro results. Docetaxel and the combination of docetaxel with carboplatin or cisplatin demonstrated the highest levels of ATP, ecto-calreticulin and HMGB1 in three out of four NSCLC cell lines. In addition, these regimens resulted in phagocytosis of treated NSCLC cells and maturation of DCs. Along similar lines, all mice vaccinated with NSCLC cells treated with docetaxel and cisplatin remained tumor-free after challenge. However, this was not the case for docetaxel, despite its induction of the ICD-related molecules in vitro, as it failed to reject tumor growth at the challenge site in 60% of the mice. Moreover, our in vitro and in vivo data show the inability of oxaliplatin to induce ICD in NSCLC cells. Overall with this study we demonstrate that clinically relevant chemotherapeutic regimens in NSCLC patients have the ability to induce ICD.

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Drug TherapyAnimalsCalreticulinCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungCell DeathCell Line, TumorHumansImmunogenic Cell DeathLung NeoplasmsMicePhagocytosisCalreticulinCALR protein, humanchemotherapyimmunogenic cell deathnon-small cell lung cancer

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PMID32560232
PMCPMC7349161
OpenAlexW3034612062

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