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ReviewOncogene2021

DCision-making in tumors governs T cell anti-tumor immunity.

Francesca Alfei, Ping-Chih Ho, Wan-Lin Lo

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Review in Oncogene, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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.

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

33 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Targeting the Dynamics Between TAMs and CAR-T Cells in Solid Tumor Therapies.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  5. Reprogramming tumor microenvironment via systemic delivery of TLR3 agonist and manganese nanoparticle.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  12. Cancer and Secretomes: HLA-G and Cancer Puzzle.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
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  17. Establishment of an in vitro evaluation method for immunomodulatory functions of yeast strains.Analytical sciences : the international journal of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry · 2024
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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 at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Francesca AlfeiDepartment of Oncology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Ping-Chih HoDepartment of Oncology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. ping-chih.ho@unil.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3078-3774
Wan-Lin LoDivision of Rheumatology, Rosalind Russell and Ephraim P. Engleman Arthritis Research Center, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. wan-lin.lo@path.utah.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9074-6847
Ludwig Cancer Research · CHUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Regulation of T cell ligand discrimination by tuning the phosphorylation kinetics of Zap70 substratesK22AI143960 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI LO, WAN-LIN · 2021 to 2022
$270k
NIAID NIH HHS K22 AI143960
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The exploitation of T cell-based immunotherapies and immune checkpoint blockade for cancer treatment has dramatically shifted oncological treatment paradigms and broadened the horizons of cancer immunology. Dendritic cells have emerged as the critical tailors of T cell immune responses, which initiate and coordinate anti-tumor immunity. Importantly, genetic alterations in cancer cells, cytokines and chemokines produced by cancer and stromal cells, and the process of tumor microenvironmental regulation can compromise dendritic cell-T cell cross-talk, thereby disrupting anti-tumor T cell responses. This review summarizes how T cell activation is controlled by dendritic cells and how the tumor microenvironment alters dendritic cell properties in the context of the anti-tumor immune cycle. Furthermore, we will highlight therapeutic options for tailoring dendritic cell-mediated decision-making in T cells for cancer treatment.

Indexed as

Dendritic CellsNeoplasmsT-LymphocytesTumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsHumansImmunotherapyLymphocyte Activation

Identifiers

PMID34290401
PMCPMC8390370
OpenAlexW3184461977

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