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ReviewWIREs mechanisms of disease2022

Mechanisms of immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome after CAR-T treatment.

Tianning Gu, Kejia Hu, Xiaohui Si, Yongxian Hu, He Huang

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Review in WIREs mechanisms of disease, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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52citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

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

52 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Coordinated expansion of CD163bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  8. Neurological complications of current and emerging CAR-T cell therapies.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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  12. Beyond the infusion: nursing at the vanguard of cytokine release syndrome rescue in CAR-T cell therapy.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tianning GuBone Marrow Transplantation Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310003, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1550-1011
Kejia HuBone Marrow Transplantation Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310003, China.
Xiaohui SiBone Marrow Transplantation Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310003, China.
Yongxian HuBone Marrow Transplantation Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310003, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9564-1852
He HuangBone Marrow Transplantation Center, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310003, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2723-1621
Zhejiang Chinese Medical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) treatment has revolutionized the landscape of cancer therapy with significant efficacy on hematologic malignancy, especially in relapsed and refractory B cell malignancies. However, unexpected serious toxicities such as cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS) still hamper its broad application. Clinical trials using CAR-T cells targeting specific antigens on tumor cell surface have provided valuable information about the characteristics of ICANS. With unclear mechanism of ICANS after CAR-T treatment, unremitting efforts have been devoted to further exploration. Clinical findings from patients with ICANS strongly indicated existence of overactivated peripheral immune response followed by endothelial activation-induced blood-brain barrier (BBB) dysfunction, which triggers subsequent central nervous system (CNS) inflammation and neurotoxicity. Several animal models have been built but failed to fully replicate the whole spectrum of ICANS in human. Hopefully, novel and powerful technologies like single-cell analysis may help decipher the precise cellular response within CNS from a different perspective when ICANS happens. Moreover, multidisciplinary cooperation among the subjects of immunology, hematology, and neurology will facilitate better understanding about the complex immune interaction between the peripheral, protective barriers, and CNS in ICANS. This review elaborates recent findings about ICANS after CAR-T treatment from bed to bench, and discusses the potential cellular and molecular mechanisms that may promote effective management in the future. This article is categorized under: Cancer > Biomedical Engineering Immune System Diseases > Molecular and Cellular Physiology Neurological Diseases > Molecular and Cellular Physiology.

Indexed as

NeoplasmsNeurotoxicity SyndromesReceptors, Chimeric AntigenAnimalsConfusionHumansImmunotherapy, AdoptiveReceptors, Antigen, T-CellReceptors, Antigen, T-CellReceptors, Chimeric Antigenchimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T)immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS)managementmechanism

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PMID35871757
PMCPMC9787013
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