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ReviewCancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII2022

PD1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint as a potential target for preventing brain tumor progression.

A Filippone, M Lanza, D Mannino, G Raciti, C Colarossi, D Sciacca, S Cuzzocrea, I Paterniti

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Review in Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
9.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

40 citing papers in PubMed, 91 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. CAR-T Cell Therapy for Central Nervous System Tumors.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  12. Unmasking a Paradox: Roles of the PD-1/PD-L1 Axis in Alzheimer's Disease-Associated Neuroinflammation.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2025
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  15. Immunotherapy in Glioblastoma: An Overview of Current Status.Clinical pharmacology : advances and applications · 2025
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  16. Neutrophil diversity and function in health and disease.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

A FilipponeDepartment of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, viale Ferdinando Stagno D'Alcontres, 31, 98166, Messina, Italy.
M LanzaDepartment of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, viale Ferdinando Stagno D'Alcontres, 31, 98166, Messina, Italy.
D ManninoDepartment of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, viale Ferdinando Stagno D'Alcontres, 31, 98166, Messina, Italy.
G RacitiIOM Ricerca Srl, via Penninazzo 11, 95029, Catania, Italy.
C ColarossiInstituto Oncologico del Mediterraneo, via Penninazzo 7, 95029, Catania, Italy.
D SciaccaInstituto Oncologico del Mediterraneo, via Penninazzo 7, 95029, Catania, Italy.
S CuzzocreaDepartment of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, viale Ferdinando Stagno D'Alcontres, 31, 98166, Messina, Italy.
I PaternitiDepartment of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, viale Ferdinando Stagno D'Alcontres, 31, 98166, Messina, Italy. ipaterniti@unime.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4316-2291
University of Messina · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Programmed death-1 (PD-1) is a cell surface receptor that functions as a T cell checkpoint and plays a central role in regulating T cell collapse. The binding of PD-1 to its ligand programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) activates downstream signaling pathways and inhibits T cell activation in the perspective of immune system mechanism and regulation in tumor progression. It is well reported that tumors adopt certain immune-checkpoint pathways as a mechanism of resistance against immune cells such as T cells that are specific for tumor antigens. Indeed, the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway controls the induction and maintenance of immune tolerance within the tumor microenvironment. Thus, the PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint regulation appears to be of extreme importance as well as the immunotherapy targeting that via and the using of PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors that have changed the scenario of brain cancer treatment and survival. Here, we review the mechanism of action of PD-1 and PD-L1, the PD/PDL-1 signaling pathway involved in the progression of brain tumors, and its application as cancer immunotherapy counteracting tumor escape in central nervous system.

Indexed as

B7-H1 AntigenBrain NeoplasmsImmune Checkpoint ProteinsProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorHumansImmunotherapyTumor MicroenvironmentB7-H1 AntigenCD274 protein, humanImmune Checkpoint ProteinsProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorBrain tumorCNSImmune systemImmunotherapyPD/PDL-1 pathway

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PMID35092481
PMCPMC9374620
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