Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33838745›Full record

ReviewImmunity2021

Chemokines and the immune response to cancer.

Aleksandra J Ozga, Melvyn T Chow, Andrew D Luster

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In one paragraph

Review in Immunity, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 558 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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558citing 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

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

  1. Necroptosis in pancreatic cancer: Molecular mechanisms and therapeutic implications.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 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

3 authors.

Aleksandra J OzgaCenter for Immunology & Inflammatory Diseases, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Melvyn T ChowCenter for Immunology & Inflammatory Diseases, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Andrew D LusterCenter for Immunology & Inflammatory Diseases, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Electronic address: aluster@mgh.harvard.edu.

Funding

Pilot & Feasibility ProgramP30DK043351 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI RAYMOND T CHUNG · 1991 to 2026
$35.3M
Lung-Resident Memory Th2 cells in Asthma - New Therapeutic TargetsR01AI040618 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI LUSTER, ANDREW D · 1997 to 2022
$5.6M
The CXCR3 Chemokine System in Cancer ImmunotherapyR01CA204028 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI LUSTER, ANDREW D · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA204028NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI040618NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK043351
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemokines are chemotactic cytokines that regulate the migration of immune cells. Chemokines function as cues for the coordinated recruitment of immune cells into and out of tissue and also guide the spatial organization and cellular interactions of immune cells within tissues. Chemokines are critical in directing immune cell migration necessary to mount and then deliver an effective anti-tumor immune response; however, chemokines also participate in the generation and recruitment of immune cells that contribute to a pro-tumorigenic microenvironment. Here, we review the role of the chemokine system in anti-tumor and pro-tumor immune responses and discuss how malignant cells and the tumor microenvironment regulate the overall chemokine landscape to shape the type and outcome of immune responses to cancer and cancer treatment.

Indexed as

AnimalsCarcinogenesisCell MovementChemokinesHumansImmunityNeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentChemokines

Identifiers

PMID33838745
PMCPMC8434759

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