Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32977154›Full record

ReviewCellular immunology2020

Identification, selection, and expansion of non-gene modified alloantigen-reactive Tregs for clinical therapeutic use.

Alaa Alzhrani, Matthew Bottomley, Kathryn Wood, Joanna Hester, Fadi Issa

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Review in Cellular immunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. CD25Frontiers in immunology · 2026
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  5. Biomaterial-Based Therapeutic Delivery of Immune Cells.Advanced healthcare materials · 2025
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  11. Anti-HLA-A2-CAR Tregs prolong vascularized mouse heterotopic heart allograft survival.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2022
    Article
  12. Small spleen peptides prevent development of psoriatic arthritis via restoration of peripheral tolerance.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2022
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  15. Cellular therapies in organ transplantation.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2021
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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alaa AlzhraniTransplantation Research Immunology Group, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom.
Matthew BottomleyTransplantation Research Immunology Group, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom.
Kathryn WoodTransplantation Research Immunology Group, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom.
Joanna HesterTransplantation Research Immunology Group, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom.
Fadi IssaTransplantation Research Immunology Group, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom. Electronic address: fadi.issa@nds.ox.ac.uk.
University of Oxford · GB

Funding

British Heart FoundationMedical Research Council MC_PC_18059Medical Research Council MR/N027930/1Wellcome Trust 211122/Z/18/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transplantation is limited by the need for life-long pharmacological immunosuppression, which carries significant morbidity and mortality. Regulatory T cell (Treg) therapy holds significant promise as a strategy to facilitate immunosuppression minimization. Polyclonal Treg therapy has been assessed in a number of Phase I/II clinical trials in both solid organ and hematopoietic transplantation. Attention is now shifting towards the production of alloantigen-reactive Tregs (arTregs) through co-culture with donor antigen. These allospecific cells harbour potent suppressive function and yet their specificity implies a theoretical reduction in off-target effects. This review will cover the progress in the development of arTregs including their potential application for clinical use in transplantation, the knowledge gained so far from clinical trials of Tregs in transplant patients, and future directions for Treg therapy.

Indexed as

AnimalsGraft RejectionHumansImmune ToleranceImmunosuppression TherapyIsoantigensT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryTransplantation ToleranceIsoantigensAlloantigen-reactive TregsCellular therapyClinical trialspolyTregsRegulatory T cellsTransplantation

Identifiers

PMID32977154
PMCPMC8482792
OpenAlexW3084384881

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