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ReviewiScience2020

Incorporating Tumor-Associated Macrophages into Engineered Models of Glioma.

Erin A Akins, Manish K Aghi, Sanjay Kumar

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Review in iScience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Oncoimmunology · 2026
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  3. Inflammasomes in glioblastoma.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026
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  15. Biomaterial-basedCancer pathogenesis and therapy · 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.

Erin A AkinsUniversity of California, Berkeley - University of California, San Francisco Graduate Program in Bioengineering, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Manish K AghiDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Sanjay KumarUniversity of California, Berkeley - University of California, San Francisco Graduate Program in Bioengineering, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Funding

Tumor cell and microenvironment changes causing antiangiogenic therapy resistanceR01NS079697 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI AGHI, MANISH · 2013 to 2021
$3.2M
Modeling and druggable-genome screening of glioblastoma invasion using regional biopsy-guided biomaterials systemsR01CA227136 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI AGHI, MANISH · 2018 to 2022
$2.2M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA227136NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS079697
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumor progression is profoundly influenced by interactions between cancer cells and the tumor microenvironment (TME). Among the various non-neoplastic cells present, immune cells are critical players in tumor development and have thus emerged as attractive therapeutic targets. Malignant gliomas exhibit a unique immune landscape characterized by high numbers of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs). Despite encouraging preclinical results, targeting TAMs has yielded limited clinical success as a strategy for slowing glioma progression. The slow translational progress of TAM-targeted therapies is due in part to an incomplete understanding of the factors driving TAM recruitment, differentiation, and polarization. Furthermore, the functions that TAMs adopt in gliomas remain largely unknown. Progress in addressing these gaps requires sophisticated culture platforms capable of capturing key cellular and physical TME features. This review summarizes the current understanding of TAMs in gliomas and highlights the utility of

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BioengineeringCancerImmunology

Identifiers

PMID33294780
PMCPMC7695970

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