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ReviewOncology letters2021

Multiple strategies to improve the therapeutic efficacy of oncolytic herpes simplex virus in the treatment of glioblastoma.

Zhengjun Zhou, Junjie Tian, Wenyan Zhang, Wei Xiang, Yang Ming, Ligang Chen, Jie Zhou

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Review in Oncology letters, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhengjun ZhouDepartment of Neurosurgery, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan 646000, P.R. China.
Junjie TianDepartment of Neurosurgery, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan 646000, P.R. China.
Wenyan ZhangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan 646000, P.R. China.
Wei XiangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan 646000, P.R. China.
Yang MingDepartment of Neurosurgery, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan 646000, P.R. China.
Ligang ChenDepartment of Neurosurgery, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan 646000, P.R. China.
Jie ZhouDepartment of Neurosurgery, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan 646000, P.R. China.
Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oncolytic viruses have attracted widespread attention as biological anticancer agents that can selectively kill tumor cells without affecting normal cells. Although progress has been made in therapeutic strategies, the prognosis of patients with glioblastoma (GBM) remains poor and no ideal treatment approach has been developed. Recently, oncolytic herpes simplex virus (oHSV) has been considered a promising novel treatment approach for GBM. However, the therapeutic efficacy of oHSV in GBM, with its intricate pathophysiology, remains unsatisfactory due to several obstacles, such as limited replication and attenuated potency of oHSV owing to deletions or mutations in virulence genes, and ineffective delivery of the therapeutic virus. Multiple strategies have attempted to identify the optimal strategy for the successful clinical application of oHSV. Several preclinical trials have demonstrated that engineering novel oHSVs, developing combination therapies and improving methods for delivering oHSV to tumor cells seem to hold promise for improving the efficacy of this virotherapy.

Indexed as

antiviral immunityarmed viruscombination therapyglioblastomaoncolytic herpes simplex virus

Identifiers

PMID33986870
PMCPMC8114469
OpenAlexW3159346837

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