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ReviewAntibody therapeutics2021

Next-generation cytokines for cancer immunotherapy.

Diyuan Xue, Eric Hsu, Yang-Xin Fu, Hua Peng

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Review in Antibody therapeutics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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45citing papers in PubMed
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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

45 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

4 authors.

Diyuan XueKey laboratory of Infection and Immunity Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 Da Tun Rd, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China.
Eric HsuDepartment of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75235, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6743-2399
Yang-Xin FuDepartment of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75235, USA.
Hua PengKey laboratory of Infection and Immunity Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 Da Tun Rd, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most studies focus on the first and second signals of T cell activation. However, the roles of cytokines in immunotherapy are not fully understood, and cytokines have not been widely used in patient care. Clinical application of cytokines is limited due to their short half-life

Indexed as

cytokinesimmunotherapyprotein engineeringtumor targeting

Identifiers

PMID34263141
PMCPMC8271143

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