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ReviewVaccines2021

The Advantages and Challenges of Anticancer Dendritic Cell Vaccines and NK Cells in Adoptive Cell Immunotherapy.

Elena V Abakushina, Liubov I Popova, Andrey A Zamyatnin, Jens Werner, Nikolay V Mikhailovsky, Alexandr V Bazhin

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Review in Vaccines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 40 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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Elena V AbakushinaDepartment for Development and Research in Immunology, LLC "Tecon Medical Devices", 123298 Moscow, Russia.
Liubov I PopovaDepartment for Development and Research in Immunology, LLC "Tecon Medical Devices", 123298 Moscow, Russia.
Andrey A ZamyatninBelozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-3046-4565
Jens WernerDepartment of General, Visceral, and Transplant Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany.
Nikolay V MikhailovskyDepartment for Development and Research in Immunology, LLC "Tecon Medical Devices", 123298 Moscow, Russia.
Alexandr V BazhinDepartment of General, Visceral, and Transplant Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany.
German Cancer Research Center · DESechenov University · RU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the last decade, an impressive advance was achieved in adoptive cell therapy (ACT), which has improved therapeutic potential and significant value in promising cancer treatment for patients. The ACT is based on the cell transfer of dendritic cells (DCs) and/or immune effector cells. DCs are often used as vaccine carriers or antigen-presenting cells (APCs) to prime naive T cells ex vivo or in vivo. Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and natural killer (NK) cells are used as major tool effector cells for ACT. Despite the fact that NK cell immunotherapy is highly effective and promising against many cancer types, there are still some limitations, including insignificant infiltration, adverse conditions of the microenvironment, the immunosuppressive cellular populations, and the low cytotoxic activity in solid tumors. To overcome these difficulties, novel methods of NK cell isolation, expansion, and stimulation of cytotoxic activity should be designed. In this review, we discuss the basic characteristics of DC vaccines and NK cells as potential adoptive cell preparations in cancer therapy.

Indexed as

adoptive cell therapycancer immunotherapycancer vaccinescell-mediated immunitydendritic cellsNK cellsNKG2Dtumor antigens

Identifiers

PMID34835294
PMCPMC8625865
OpenAlexW3217235816

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