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ReviewFrontiers in chemistry2020

Tumor Immune Microenvironments (TIMEs): Responsive Nanoplatforms for Antitumor Immunotherapy.

Xueqing Sui, Teng Jin, Tonghui Liu, Shiman Wu, Yue Wu, Zhongmin Tang, Yan Ren, Dalong Ni, Zhenwei Yao, Hua Zhang

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Review in Frontiers in chemistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 41% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Magnetic systems for cancer immunotherapy.Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Xueqing SuiDepartment of Radiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.
Teng JinDepartment of Radiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Tonghui LiuDepartment of Neurology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.
Shiman WuDepartment of Radiology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Yue WuDepartment of Radiology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Zhongmin TangState Key Laboratory of High-Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
Yan RenDepartment of Radiology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Dalong NiDepartments of Radiology, Medical Physics, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States.
Zhenwei YaoDepartment of Radiology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Hua ZhangDepartment of Radiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.
Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University · CNHuashan Hospital · CNChinese Academy of Sciences · CNFudan University · CNHuazhong University of Science and Technology · CNUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interest in cancer immunotherapy has rapidly risen since it offers many advantages over traditional approaches, such as high efficiency and prevention of metastasis. Efforts have primarily focused on two major strategies for regulating the body's antitumor immune response mechanisms: "enhanced immunotherapy" that aims to amplify the immune activation, and "normalized immunotherapy" that corrects the defective immune mechanism in the tumor immune microenvironments (TIMEs), which returns to the normal immune trajectory. However, due to the complexity and heterogeneity of the TIMEs, and lack of visualization research on the immunotherapy process, cancer immunotherapy has not been widely used in clinical setting. Recently, through the design and modification of nanomaterials, intelligent TIME-responsive nanoplatforms were developed from which encouraging results in many aspects of immunotherapy have been achieved. In this mini review, the status of designed nanomaterials for nanoplatform-based immune regulation of TIMEs has been emphasized, particularly with respect to the aforementioned approaches. It is envisaged that future prospects will focus on a combination of multiple immunotherapies for more efficient cancer inhibition and elimination.

Indexed as

cancerenhanced immunotherapynanomaterialsnormalized immunotherapytumor immune microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID33094098
PMCPMC7508192
OpenAlexW3084365431

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