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ReviewBiomedicines2024

NK Cells in the Lymph Nodes and Their Role in Anti-Tumour Immunity.

Lara V Graham, Salim I Khakoo, Matthew D Blunt

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Review in Biomedicines, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Lara V GrahamSchool of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK.ORCID 0009-0006-5420-9020
Salim I KhakooSchool of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4057-9091
Matthew D BluntSchool of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1099-3985

Funding

Cancer Research UK ECRIN-M3 accelerator award C42023/A29370Leukaemia UK John Goldman Fellowship follow-up awardMedical Research Council DTP award MR/N014308/1University of Southampton Cancer Immunology Talent Fund Cancer Immunology Talent Fund
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The lymph nodes are vital to enable adaptive immune responses to infection. Natural killer (NK) cells are cytotoxic lymphocytes that directly kill cancer cells and modulate the activation of other immune cells during anti-tumour immune response. NK cells in the lymph nodes are involved in the regulation of T-cell and B-cell populations and the clearance of viral infections. In solid tumours, lymph nodes are a frequent site of metastasis and immune cell priming, whilst in haematological malignancies, tumour cells can proliferate in the lymph nodes. Thus, lymph nodes are an important site in anti-tumour immunity and therapy resistance. It is therefore crucial to identify strategies to increase recruitment and overcome suppression of NK cells in the lymph node microenvironment to improve tumour clearance. In this review, we summarise the literature interrogating NK cell phenotype and function in the lymph nodes in the context of infection and cancer and evaluate both current and potential strategies to mobilise and activate NK cells within the lymph nodes of cancer patients.

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cancerimmunotherapylymph nodesnatural killer (NK) cells

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PMID39200132
PMCPMC11351147

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