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ReviewCells2020

Necroptosis in Immuno-Oncology and Cancer Immunotherapy.

Jenny Sprooten, Pieter De Wijngaert, Isaure Vanmeerbeerk, Shaun Martin, Peter Vangheluwe, Susan Schlenner, Dmitri V Krysko, Jan B Parys, Geert Bultynck, Peter Vandenabeele and 1 more

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Review in Cells, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 116 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
116citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
9.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

116 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 169 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Necroptosis in pancreatic cancer: Molecular mechanisms and therapeutic implications.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2026
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56 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

11 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Jenny SprootenDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Laboratory of Cell Stress & Immunity (CSI), KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Pieter De WijngaertDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Laboratory of Cell Stress & Immunity (CSI), KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Isaure VanmeerbeerkDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Laboratory of Cell Stress & Immunity (CSI), KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Shaun MartinDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Laboratory of Cellular Transport Systems, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Peter VangheluweDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Laboratory of Cellular Transport Systems, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Susan SchlennerDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Dmitri V KryskoDepartment of Human Structure and Repair, Cell Death Investigation and Therapy Laboratory, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-9692-2047
Jan B ParysDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Leuven Kanker Instituut (LKI), Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Signaling, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-3591-4967
Geert BultynckDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Leuven Kanker Instituut (LKI), Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Signaling, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-5968-4828
Peter VandenabeeleDepartment of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Abhishek D GargDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Laboratory of Cell Stress & Immunity (CSI), KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-9976-9922
KU Leuven · BETransport & Mobility Leuven (Belgium) · BEVIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology · BEGhent University · BESechenov University · RU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immune-checkpoint blockers (ICBs) have revolutionized oncology and firmly established the subfield of immuno-oncology. Despite this renaissance, a subset of cancer patients remain unresponsive to ICBs due to widespread immuno-resistance. To "break" cancer cell-driven immuno-resistance, researchers have long floated the idea of therapeutically facilitating the immunogenicity of cancer cells by disrupting tumor-associated immuno-tolerance via conventional anticancer therapies. It is well appreciated that anticancer therapies causing immunogenic or inflammatory cell death are best positioned to productively activate anticancer immunity. A large proportion of studies have emphasized the importance of immunogenic apoptosis (i.e., immunogenic cell death or ICD); yet, it has also emerged that necroptosis, a programmed necrotic cell death pathway, can also be immunogenic. Emergence of a proficient immune profile for necroptosis has important implications for cancer because resistance to apoptosis is one of the major hallmarks of tumors. Putative immunogenic or inflammatory characteristics driven by necroptosis can be of great impact in immuno-oncology. However, as is typical for a highly complex and multi-factorial disease like cancer, a clear cause versus consensus relationship on the immunobiology of necroptosis in cancer cells has been tough to establish. In this review, we discuss the various aspects of necroptosis immunobiology with specific focus on immuno-oncology and cancer immunotherapy.

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HumansImmunotherapyNecroptosiscytokinesdamage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs)danger signalsdendritic cellsimmunogenic cell deathinterferonsmacrophagespatientsprognostic/predictive biomarkersT cells

Identifiers

PMID32752206
PMCPMC7464343
OpenAlexW3046546808

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