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ArticleOncoimmunology2020

Dexamethasone premedication suppresses vaccine-induced immune responses against cancer.

Mathias Vormehr, Sophie Lehar, Lena M Kranz, Siri Tahtinen, Yoko Oei, Vincent Javinal, Lélia Delamarre, Kerstin C Walzer, Mustafa Diken, Sebastian Kreiter and 4 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 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 26 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

14 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mathias VormehrBioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals, Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7788-3380
Sophie LeharGenentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Lena M KranzBioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals, Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1943-3431
Siri TahtinenGenentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Yoko OeiGenentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Vincent JavinalBioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals, Mainz, Germany.
Lélia DelamarreGenentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9122-5181
Kerstin C WalzerBioNTech SE, Mainz, Germany.
Mustafa DikenBioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals, Mainz, Germany.
Sebastian KreiterBioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals, Mainz, Germany.
Ira MellmanGenentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Ugur SahinResearch Center for Immunotherapy (FZI), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.
Jill M SchartnerGenentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Özlem TüreciBioNTech SE, Mainz, Germany.
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz · DEBioNTech (Germany) · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glucocorticosteroids (GCS) have an established role in oncology and are administered to cancer patients in routine clinical care and in drug development trials as co-medication. Given their strong immune-suppressive activity, GCS may interfere with immune-oncology drugs. We are developing a therapeutic cancer vaccine, which is based on a liposomal formulation of tumor-antigen encoding RNA (RNA-LPX) and induces a strong T-cell response both in mice as well as in humans. In this study, we investigated

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NeoplasmsAnimalsDexamethasoneFemaleHumansImmunityMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C57BLPremedicationDexamethasonecancer immunotherapydexamethasoneGlucocorticosteroidsRNA vaccineT-cell primingT-cell vaccine

Identifiers

PMID32923115
PMCPMC7458619
OpenAlexW3025595789

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