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ReviewDrug discovery today2021

Tumor-infiltrating CD8

Sandeep Kumar, Sunil Kumar Singh, Basabi Rana, Ajay Rana

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Review in Drug discovery today, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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55citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

55 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Advancements in immunotherapy for oropharyngeal cancer: Current landscape and future prospects.Biomedical papers of the Medical Faculty of the University Palacky, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia · 2026
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  6. A radiotherapy-related fibrosis gene signature-based risk model for predicting prognosis and immunological features in lung adenocarcinoma.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  8. CD8Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2026
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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

4 authors.

Sandeep KumarDepartment of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL 60612, USA. Electronic address: ksandeep@uic.edu.
Sunil Kumar SinghDepartment of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Basabi RanaDepartment of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL 60612, USA; University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System Cancer Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Ajay RanaDepartment of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL 60612, USA; University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System Cancer Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.

Funding

Developing Nano Technology for HER2 Directed TherapyR01CA216410 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI LI, SONG, RANA, AJAY NMN · 2017 to 2021
$2.8M
Mechanistic Insight on the Role of Berberine and AMPK in Hepatocellular CarcinomaR03CA219764 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI RANA, BASABI · 2019 to 2020
$160k
Elucidation of MLK3 Signaling in Hepatocellular CarcinomaI01BX003296 · VA · JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER · PI RANA, BASABI · 2016 to 2022
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BLR&D Research Career Scientist Award ApplicationIK6BX004855 · VA · JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER · PI AJAY NMN RANA · 2020 to 2026
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BLRD VA I01 BX003296BLRD VA I01 BX004903BLRD VA IK6 BX004855NCI NIH HHS R01 CA216410NCI NIH HHS R03 CA219764
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Host immunity has an essential role in the clinical management of cancers. Therefore, it is advantageous to choose therapies that can promote tumor cell death and concurrently boost host immunity. The dynamic tumor microenvironment (TME) determines whether an antineoplastic drug will elicit favorable or disparaging immune responses from tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). CD8

Indexed as

Immunomodulating AgentsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCell SurvivalCytotoxicity, ImmunologicHumansImmunotherapyLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingTumor MicroenvironmentImmunomodulating Agents

Identifiers

PMID33450394
PMCPMC8131230

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