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ReviewOncology letters2020

Progress of immune checkpoint LAG-3 in immunotherapy.

Chanchan Shan, Xing Li, Jian Zhang

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Review in Oncology letters, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Immune checkpoint molecules beyond PD-1 and CTLA-4: emerging targets in autoimmune diseases and cancer immunotherapy.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2026
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  5. LAG-3-associated CD8Frontiers in immunology · 2026
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  7. Single-cell analysis reveals potential therapeutic markers of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from bladder cancer patients.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2025
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  19. LAG3 in gastric cancer: it's complicated.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2023
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  20. From bench to bedside: targeting lymphocyte activation gene 3 as a therapeutic strategy for autoimmune diseases.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2023
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chanchan ShanDepartment of Cardiology, Wuxi No. 2 People's Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214000, P.R. China.
Xing LiDepartment of Cardiology, Wuxi No. 2 People's Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214000, P.R. China.
Jian ZhangDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wuxi No. 2 People's Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214000, P.R. China.
Wuxi No.2 People's Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immune checkpoint inhibition has been shown to successfully reactivate T cell responses directed against tumor-associated antigens, resulting in significantly prolonged overall survival in patients with various types of solid tumors. Among them, cytotoxic T-lymphocyte protein 4 (CTLA-4) and programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) play key roles in tumor immune escape and are well-established targets of cancer immunotherapy. However, the low response rate PD-1 and CTLA-4 is a limitation and a challenge. Hence, studies have focused on investigating the tumor microenvironment for alternative therapeutic targets. Lymphocyte activation gene 3 protein (LAG-3) negatively regulates T lymphocytes by binding to the extracellular domain of the ligand, thus avoiding autoimmunity caused by T cell overactivation. LAG-3 is an important immune checkpoint

Indexed as

cancer immunotherapyimmune checkpointlymphocyte activation gene3

Identifiers

PMID32963613
PMCPMC7491111
OpenAlexW3083943349

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