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ReviewThoracic cancer2022

Gut microbiota shed new light on the management of immune-related adverse events.

Bei Tan, Yun-Xin Liu, Hao Tang, Dan Chen, Yan Xu, Min-Jiang Chen, Yue Li, Meng-Zhao Wang, Jia-Ming Qian

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Review in Thoracic cancer, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 23 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

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bei Tan *Department of Gastroenterology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0053-7399
Yun-Xin Liu *Medical Doctor Program, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China.
Hao TangDepartment of Internal Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China.
Dan ChenDepartment of Gastroenterology, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China.
Yan XuDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2832-2664
Min-Jiang ChenDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4040-6115
Yue LiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China.
Meng-Zhao WangDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China.
Jia-Ming QianDepartment of Gastroenterology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China.
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapy has dramatically revolutionized the therapeutic landscape for patients with cancer. Although immune checkpoint inhibitors are now accepted as effective anticancer therapies, they introduce a novel class of toxicity, termed immune-related adverse events, which can lead to the temporary or permanent discontinuation of immunotherapy and life-threatening tumor progression. Therefore, the effective prevention and treatment of immune-related adverse events is a clinical imperative to maximize the utility of immunotherapies. Immune-related adverse events are related to the intestinal microbiota, baseline gut microbiota composition is an important determinant of immune checkpoint inhibitor-related colitis, and antibiotics exacerbate these undesirable side-effects. Supplementation with specific probiotics reduces immune checkpoint inhibitor-related colitis in mice, and fecal microbiota transplantation has now been shown to effectively treat refractory immune checkpoint inhibitor-related colitis in the clinic. Hence, modifying the microbiota holds great promise for preventing and treating immune-related adverse events. Microbiomes and their metabolites play important roles in the potential underlying mechanisms through interactions with both innate and adaptive immune cells. Here we review the gut microbiota and immune regulation; the changes occurring in the microbiota during immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy; the relationship between the microbiota and immune-related adverse events, antibiotics, probiotics/prebiotics, and fecal microbiota transplantation in immune checkpoint inhibitor-related colitis; and the protective mechanisms mediated by the microbiome and metabolites in immune-related adverse events.

Indexed as

ColitisGastrointestinal MicrobiomeAnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsHumansImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsMicePrebioticsAnti-Bacterial AgentsImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsPrebioticsfecal microbiota transplantationimmune checkpoint inhibitorsimmune-related adverse eventsintestinal microbiotaprobiotics

Identifiers

PMID36043345
PMCPMC9527168
OpenAlexW4293728142

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