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ReviewSeminars in immunology2021

The role of dendritic cells in cancer and anti-tumor immunity.

Ariel E Marciscano, Niroshana Anandasabapathy

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Review in Seminars in immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 182 papers.

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182citing papers in PubMed
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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

182 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Evidence-steered medicine in oncology: network-aware micro-combinations that safeguard standard of care and potentially improve benefit-risk.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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  17. Aging-associated differences in mammary tumor-initiating populations and immune evasion pathways in breast cancer.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ariel E MarciscanoDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, United States. Electronic address: arm7007@med.cornell.edu.
Niroshana AnandasabapathyDepartment of Dermatology, Meyer Cancer Center, Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, United States; Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, United States. Electronic address: nia9069@med.cornell.edu.

Funding

Peripheral mechanisms of homeostasis and tolerance through skin dendritic cellsR01AR070234 · NIAMS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI ANANDASABAPATHY, NIROSHANA · 2016 to 2020
$2.6M
NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR070234
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dendritic cells (DC) are key sentinels of the host immune response with an important role in linking innate and adaptive immunity and maintaining tolerance. There is increasing recognition that DC are critical determinants of initiating and sustaining effective T-cell-mediated anti-tumor immune responses. Recent progress in immuno-oncology has led to the evolving insight that the presence and function of DC within the tumor microenvironment (TME) may dictate efficacy of cancer immunotherapies as well as conventional cancer therapies, including immune checkpoint blockade, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. As such, improved understanding of dendritic cell immunobiology specifically focusing on their role in T-cell priming, migration into tissues and TME, and the coordinated in vivo responses of functionally specialized DC subsets will facilitate a better mechanistic understanding of how tumor-immune surveillance can be leveraged to improve patient outcomes and to develop novel DC-targeted therapeutic approaches.

Indexed as

Dendritic CellsNeoplasmsAdaptive ImmunityHumansImmunotherapyTumor MicroenvironmentAntigen presentationAnti-tumor immunityCancerCross-presentationDendritic cellsImmunotherapy

Identifiers

PMID34023170
PMCPMC8545750

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