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ReviewCellular & molecular immunology2022

CD40 stimulation as a molecular adjuvant for cancer vaccines and other immunotherapies.

Timothy N J Bullock

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Review in Cellular & molecular immunology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 72 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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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

72 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  9. In Silico Study of Anti-CD40 DNA Aptamers as Vaccine Adjuvants for Chickens.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  11. Synthetic SIGLEC9-based chimeric switch receptor augments the efficacy of CAR macrophages against glioblastoma.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  17. Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Timothy N J BullockDepartment of Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA. TB5V@virginia.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6141-3261

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The substantial advances attained by checkpoint blockade immunotherapies have driven an expansion in the approaches used to promote T cell access to the tumor microenvironment to provide targets for checkpoint immunotherapy. Inherent in any T cell response to a tumor antigen is the capacity of dendritic cells to initiate and support such responses. Here, the rationale and early immunobiology of CD40 as a master regulator of dendritic cell activation is reviewed, with further contextualization and appreciation for the role of CD40 stimulation not only in cancer vaccines but also in other contemporary immune-oncology approaches.

Indexed as

Cancer VaccinesNeoplasmsAdjuvants, ImmunologicAntigens, NeoplasmCD40 AntigensImmunotherapyAdjuvants, ImmunologicAntigens, NeoplasmCancer VaccinesCD40 AntigensCD40CD40Ldendritic cellT cellvaccine

Identifiers

PMID34282297
PMCPMC8752810

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