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ReviewCancers2023

Metabolic Barriers to Glioblastoma Immunotherapy.

Nikita Choudhary, Robert C Osorio, Jun Y Oh, Manish K Aghi

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Review in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Current Status and Evolution of Immunotherapy in Glioma Management.International journal of medical sciences · 2026
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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nikita ChoudharyDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Robert C OsorioDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7669-2176
Jun Y OhDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Manish K AghiDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Tumor cell and microenvironment changes causing antiangiogenic therapy resistanceR01NS079697 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI AGHI, MANISH · 2013 to 2021
$3.2M
Modeling and druggable-genome screening of glioblastoma invasion using regional biopsy-guided biomaterials systemsR01CA227136 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI AGHI, MANISH · 2018 to 2022
$2.2M
Retroviral RLI immunomodulatory gene therapy for glioblastomaR01NS123808 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Manish Aghi · 2022 to 2026
$2.1M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS079697NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS123808
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary brain tumor with a poor prognosis with the current standard of care treatment. To address the need for novel therapeutic options in GBM, immunotherapies which target cancer cells through stimulating an anti-tumoral immune response have been investigated in GBM. However, immunotherapies in GBM have not met with anywhere near the level of success they have encountered in other cancers. The immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment in GBM is thought to contribute significantly to resistance to immunotherapy. Metabolic alterations employed by cancer cells to promote their own growth and proliferation have been shown to impact the distribution and function of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment. More recently, the diminished function of anti-tumoral effector immune cells and promotion of immunosuppressive populations resulting from metabolic alterations have been investigated as contributory to therapeutic resistance. The GBM tumor cell metabolism of four nutrients (glucose, glutamine, tryptophan, and lipids) has recently been described as contributory to an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment and immunotherapy resistance. Understanding metabolic mechanisms of resistance to immunotherapy in GBM can provide insight into future directions targeting the anti-tumor immune response in combination with tumor metabolism.

Indexed as

glioblastomaglutamine metabolismglycolysisimmunotherapylipid metabolismmetabolismtryptophan metabolismtumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID36900311
PMCPMC10000693
OpenAlexW4322619799

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