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ReviewCancer management and research2020

Regulatory T Cells in Cancer Immunotherapy: Basic Research Outcomes and Clinical Directions.

Guoming Zeng, Libo Jin, Qinsi Ying, Haojie Chen, Murinda Charmaine Thembinkosi, Chunguang Yang, Jinlong Zhao, Hao Ji, Sue Lin, Renyi Peng and 2 more

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Review in Cancer management and research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 19 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

12 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Guoming Zeng *Chongqing University of Science and Technology, Chongqing 401331, People's Republic of China.
Libo Jin *Institute of Life Sciences, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, People's Republic of China.
Qinsi YingWenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, People's Republic of China.
Haojie ChenInstitute of Life Sciences, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0001-9377-5216
Murinda Charmaine ThembinkosiInstitute of Life Sciences, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, People's Republic of China.
Chunguang YangInstitute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, Liaoning 110016, People's Republic of China.
Jinlong ZhaoInstitute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, Liaoning 110016, People's Republic of China.
Hao JiInstitute of Life Sciences, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, People's Republic of China.
Sue LinInstitute of Life Sciences, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, People's Republic of China.
Renyi PengInstitute of Life Sciences, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, People's Republic of China.
Maolan ZhangChongqing University of Science and Technology, Chongqing 401331, People's Republic of China.
Da SunInstitute of Life Sciences, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0001-7747-9951
Wenzhou University · CNChinese Academy of Sciences · CNChongqing University of Science and Technology · CNUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer immunotherapy is a promising approach that has recently gained its importance in treating cancer. Despite various approaches of immunotherapies being used to target cancer cells, they are either not effective against all types of cancer or for all patients. Although efforts are being made to improve the cancer immunotherapy in all possible ways, one important hindrance that lowers the immune response to kill cancer cells is the infiltration of Regulatory T (Treg) cells into the tumor cells, favoring tumor progression, on one hand, and inhibiting the activation of T cells to respond to cancer cells, on the other hand. Therefore, new anti-cancer drugs and vaccines fail to show promising results against cancer. This is due to the infiltration of Treg cells into the tumor region and suppression of anti-cancer activity. Thus, regardless of various types of immunotherapies being practiced, understanding the mechanisms of how Treg cells favor tumor progression and inhibition of anti-cancer activity is worthwhile. Therefore, the review highlights the importance of Tregs cells and how depletion of Treg cells can pave the way to an effective immunotherapy by activating the immune responses against cancer.

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anti-cancercancer immunotherapyFoxP3targeting Treg cellsTreg cells

Identifiers

PMID33116895
PMCPMC7586057
OpenAlexW3094579387

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