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ArticleCurrent transplantation reports2020

CAR-Tregs as a Strategy for Inducing Graft Tolerance.

Johanna C Wagner, Qizhi Tang

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Article in Current transplantation reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Tolerogenic Therapies in Cardiac Transplantation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  8. Donor-Specific Blood Transfusion in Lung Transplantation.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2024
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  11. Anti-HLA-A2-CAR Tregs prolong vascularized mouse heterotopic heart allograft survival.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Johanna C WagnerDivision of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Qizhi TangDivision of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Donor-Alloantigen-Reactive Regulatory T Cell Therapy in Liver TransplantationU01AI110658 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI BLUESTONE, JEFFREY A, FENG, SANDY · 2014 to 2018
$4.8M
Designer Tregs for restoring tolerance in patients with type 1 diabetesUC4DK116264 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI BLUESTONE, JEFFREY A, LIM, WENDELL A · 2017 to 2017
$3.4M
NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI110658NIDDK NIH HHS UC4 DK116264
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of the reviewThe adoptive transfer of alloantigen-specific regulatory T cells (Tregs) following organ transplantation is an emerging treatment paradigm that may induce tolerance and reduce the risk for graft rejection. In particular, redirecting Treg specificity via expression of synthetic chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) has demonstrated therapeutic promise in several preclinical studies. In this review, we highlight recent progress and remaining barriers to the clinical translation of CAR-Treg therapies. RECENT

findingsCAR Tregs targeting human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A2 showed antigen-specific SUMMARY: Donor HLA molecules are attractive candidate antigens to target with CAR Tregs in transplantation due to mismatched HLA only expressed on the transplanted organ. The feasibility of this approach has been demonstrated by several independent groups in recent years. However, substantial challenges in CAR design and preclinical modeling must be more extensively addressed prior to clinical application.

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CARHLAtolerancetransplantationTregs

Identifiers

PMID33816057
PMCPMC8011668
OpenAlexW3039384844

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