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ReviewTheranostics2022

Recent advances in nanomedicines for photodynamic therapy (PDT)-driven cancer immunotherapy.

Bin Ji, Minjie Wei, Bin Yang

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Review in Theranostics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 202 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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202citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
24.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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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

202 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 478 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 1 country.

Bin JiSchool of Pharmacy, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110122, China.
Minjie WeiSchool of Pharmacy, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110122, China.
Bin YangSchool of Pharmacy, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110122, China.
China Medical University · CNFirst Hospital of China Medical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer immunotherapy has made tremendous clinical progress in advanced-stage malignancies. However, patients with various tumors exhibit a low response rate to immunotherapy because of a powerful immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) and insufficient immunogenicity of tumors. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) can not only directly kill tumor cells, but also elicit immunogenic cell death (ICD), providing antitumor immunity. Unfortunately, limitations from the inherent nature and complex TME significantly reduce the efficiency of PDT. Recently, smart nanomedicine-based strategies could subtly modulate the pharmacokinetics of therapeutic compounds and the TME to optimize both PDT and immunotherapy, resulting in an improved antitumor effect. Here, the emerging nanomedicines for PDT-driven cancer immunotherapy are reviewed, including hypoxia-reversed nanomedicines, nanosized metal-organic frameworks, and subcellular targeted nanoparticles (NPs). Moreover, we highlight the synergistic nanotherapeutics used to amplify immune responses combined with immunotherapy against tumors. Lastly, the challenges and future expectations in the field of PDT-driven cancer immunotherapy are discussed.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansImmunotherapyNanomedicineNanoparticlesNeoplasmsPhotochemotherapycancer immunotherapyemerging nanomedicinesimmune responsephotodynamic therapysynergistic nanotherapeutics

Identifiers

PMID34987658
PMCPMC8690913
OpenAlexW4200537699

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