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ReviewCells2021

Immunotherapy of Glioblastoma: Current Strategies and Challenges in Tumor Model Development.

Bernarda Majc, Metka Novak, Nataša Kopitar-Jerala, Anahid Jewett, Barbara Breznik

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Review in Cells, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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63citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

63 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  7. Advancements in Drug Delivery Systems in Glioblastoma Therapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  18. A Human Tumor-Immune Organoid Model of Glioblastoma.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  20. In Vitro Anti-Glioblastoma Activity ofLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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3 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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.

Bernarda MajcDepartment of Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Biology, National Institute of Biology, 111 Večna pot, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Metka NovakDepartment of Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Biology, National Institute of Biology, 111 Večna pot, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Nataša Kopitar-JeralaDepartment of Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology, Jozef Stefan Institute, 39 Jamova ulica, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.ORCID 0000-0003-1381-070X
Anahid JewettDivision of Oral Biology and Medicine, The Jane and Jerry Weintraub Center for Reconstructive Biotechnology, University of California School of Dentistry, 10833 Le Conte Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Barbara BreznikDepartment of Genetic Toxicology and Cancer Biology, National Institute of Biology, 111 Večna pot, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.ORCID 0000-0003-0247-5811

Funding

European Program of Cross-Border Cooperation for Slovenia-Italy Interreg TRANS-GLIOMAJavna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS P1-0245, Z3-1870, BI-US/19-21-021
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastoma is the most common brain malignant tumor in the adult population, and immunotherapy is playing an increasingly central role in the treatment of many cancers. Nevertheless, the search for effective immunotherapeutic approaches for glioblastoma patients continues. The goal of immunotherapy is to promote tumor eradication, boost the patient's innate and adaptive immune responses, and overcome tumor immune resistance. A range of new, promising immunotherapeutic strategies has been applied for glioblastoma, including vaccines, oncolytic viruses, immune checkpoint inhibitors, and adoptive cell transfer. However, the main challenges of immunotherapy for glioblastoma are the intracranial location and heterogeneity of the tumor as well as the unique, immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment. Owing to the lack of appropriate tumor models, there are discrepancies in the efficiency of various immunotherapeutic strategies between preclinical studies (with in vitro and animal models) on the one hand and clinical studies (on humans) on the other hand. In this review, we summarize the glioblastoma characteristics that drive tolerance to immunotherapy, the currently used immunotherapeutic approaches against glioblastoma, and the most suitable tumor models to mimic conditions in glioblastoma patients. These models are improving and can more precisely predict patients' responses to immunotherapeutic treatments, either alone or in combination with standard treatment.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyModels, BiologicalAnimalsBrain NeoplasmsDisease Models, AnimalGlioblastomaHumansImmunosuppression Therapyglioblastomaheterogeneityimmunosuppressionimmunotherapymicroenvironmentorganoidstem celltumor model

Identifiers

PMID33572835
PMCPMC7912469

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