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ReviewAmerican journal of cancer research2020

Fueling chimeric antigen receptor T cells with cytokines.

Jin Jin, Jiali Cheng, Meijuan Huang, Hui Luo, Jianfeng Zhou

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Review in American journal of cancer 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
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

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, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jin JinDepartment of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Jiali ChengDepartment of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Meijuan HuangDepartment of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Hui LuoDepartment of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Jianfeng ZhouDepartment of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Huazhong University of Science and Technology · CNTongji Hospital · CNHubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T therapy started a new era of tumor treatment, especially for hematological malignancies. However, many challenges remain, including low-level proliferation and short-term persistence, insufficient CAR T-cell trafficking, suppressive tumor microenvironment (TME), frequent adverse events and the unaffordable manufacturing process. Cytokines are pleiotropic hormones involved in multiple processes of immunity, including activation, expansion, differentiation, and migration of immune cells. Both pre-clinical models and clinical trials showed that armoring CAR-T cells with cytokines strengthened the anti-tumor responses of CAR T cells. This review looked into the key role of cytokines as a promoter of anti-tumor activities of CAR-T cells and consequently a facilitator of clinical translation, mainly, from cytokines of the common γ-chains family, chemokines and chemokine receptors, immunosuppressive molecules and pro-inflammatory cytokines.

Indexed as

Chimeric antigen receptor T cellscytokinesendogenous immunitypersistencetumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID33414984
PMCPMC7783740
OpenAlexW3119616648

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