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ReviewScience advances2022

Hydrogel-guided strategies to stimulate an effective immune response for vaccine-based cancer immunotherapy.

Lei Lei, Dennis Huang, Huile Gao, Bin He, Jun Cao, Nicholas A Peppas

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Review in Science advances, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43citing papers in PubMed
8.9field-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

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

43 citing papers in PubMed, 112 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.

Lei LeiNational Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, College of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, P. R. China.ORCID 0000-0002-5002-1059
Dennis HuangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8842-8970
Huile GaoKey Laboratory of Drug-Targeting and Drug Delivery System of the Education Ministry and Sichuan Province, Sichuan Engineering Laboratory for Plant-Sourced Drug and Sichuan Research Center for Drug Precision Industrial Technology, West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China.ORCID 0000-0002-5355-7238
Bin HeNational Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, College of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, P. R. China.ORCID 0000-0002-0939-9869
Jun CaoNational Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, College of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, P. R. China.ORCID 0000-0002-5591-2299
Nicholas A PeppasDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0894-5626
Sichuan University · CNThe University of Texas at Austin · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer vaccines have attracted widespread interest in tumor therapy because of the potential to induce an effective antitumor immune response. However, many challenges including weak immunogenicity, off-target effects, and immunosuppressive microenvironments have prevented their broad clinical translation. To overcome these difficulties, effective delivery systems have been designed for cancer vaccines. As carriers in cancer vaccine delivery systems, hydrogels have gained substantial attention because they can encapsulate a variety of antigens/immunomodulators and protect them from degradation. This enables hydrogels to simultaneously reverse immunosuppression and stimulate the immune response. Meanwhile, the controlled release properties of hydrogels allow for precise temporal and spatial release of loads in situ to further enhance the immune response of cancer vaccines. Therefore, this review summarizes the classification of cancer vaccines, highlights the strategies of hydrogel-based cancer vaccines, and provides some insights into the future development of hydrogel-based cancer vaccines.

Indexed as

Cancer VaccinesNeoplasmsAdjuvants, ImmunologicHumansHydrogelsImmunityImmunotherapyTumor MicroenvironmentAdjuvants, ImmunologicCancer VaccinesHydrogels

Identifiers

PMID36427310
PMCPMC9699680
OpenAlexW4310052224

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