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ReviewMaterials today. Bio2024

Targeting lymph nodes for enhanced cancer vaccination: From nanotechnology to tissue engineering.

Jie Wang, Zongying Zhang, Rongxiang Liang, Wujun Chen, Qian Li, Jiazhen Xu, Hongmei Zhao, Dongming Xing

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Review in Materials today. Bio, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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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

15 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Design Considerations for Potent DNA-Platform-Based Cancer Vaccines.Current opinion in biomedical engineering · 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

8 authors.

Jie WangAffiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China.
Zongying ZhangAffiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China.
Rongxiang LiangQingdao Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Qingdao, 266033, China.
Wujun ChenAffiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China.
Qian LiAffiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China.
Jiazhen XuAffiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China.
Hongmei ZhaoAffiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China.
Dongming XingAffiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lymph nodes (LNs) occupy a critical position in initiating and augmenting immune responses, both spatially and functionally. In cancer immunotherapy, tumor-specific vaccines are blooming as a powerful tool to suppress the growth of existing tumors, as well as provide preventative efficacy against tumorigenesis. Delivering these vaccines more efficiently to LNs, where antigen-presenting cells (APCs) and T cells abundantly reside, is under extensive exploration. Formulating vaccines into nanomedicines, optimizing their physiochemical properties, and surface modification to specifically bind molecules expressed on LNs or APCs, are common routes and have brought encouraging outcomes. Alternatively, porous scaffolds can be engineered to attract APCs and provide an environment for them to mature, proliferate and migrate to LNs. A relatively new research direction is inducing the formation of LN-like organoids, which have shown positive relevance to tumor prognosis. Cutting-edge advances in these directions and discussions from a future perspective are given here, from which the up-to-date pattern of cancer vaccination will be drawn to hopefully provide basic guidance to future studies.

Indexed as

Artificial organoidsCancer vaccinationDecellularized lymph nodesLymph node-targetingTertiary lymphoid structures

Identifiers

PMID38711936
PMCPMC11070719

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