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ReviewExploration (Beijing, China)2024

Tumor cell membrane-based vaccines: A potential boost for cancer immunotherapy.

Muyang Yang, Jie Zhou, Liseng Lu, Deqiang Deng, Jing Huang, Zijian Tang, Xiujuan Shi, Pui-Chi Lo, Jonathan F Lovell, Yongfa Zheng and 1 more

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Review in Exploration (Beijing, China), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
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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

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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

39 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

11 authors.

Muyang YangCollege of Biomedicine and Health and College of Life Science and Technology Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7340-1188
Jie ZhouState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University Guangzhou China.
Liseng LuCollege of Biomedicine and Health and College of Life Science and Technology Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan China.
Deqiang DengCollege of Biomedicine and Health and College of Life Science and Technology Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan China.
Jing HuangCollege of Biomedicine and Health and College of Life Science and Technology Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan China.
Zijian TangCollege of Biomedicine and Health and College of Life Science and Technology Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan China.
Xiujuan ShiCollege of Biomedicine and Health and College of Life Science and Technology Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan China.
Pui-Chi LoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences City University of Hong Kong Kowloon Hong Kong China.
Jonathan F LovellDepartment of Biomedical Engineering University at Buffalo State University of New York Buffalo New York USA.
Yongfa ZhengDepartment of Oncology Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University Wuhan China.
Honglin JinCollege of Biomedicine and Health and College of Life Science and Technology Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-9539

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Because therapeutic cancer vaccines can, in theory, eliminate tumor cells specifically with relatively low toxicity, they have long been considered for application in repressing cancer progression. Traditional cancer vaccines containing a single or a few discrete tumor epitopes have failed in the clinic, possibly due to challenges in epitope selection, target downregulation, cancer cell heterogeneity, tumor microenvironment immunosuppression, or a lack of vaccine immunogenicity. Whole cancer cell or cancer membrane vaccines, which provide a rich source of antigens, are emerging as viable alternatives. Autologous and allogenic cellular cancer vaccines have been evaluated as clinical treatments. Tumor cell membranes (TCMs) are an intriguing antigen source, as they provide membrane-accessible targets and, at the same time, serve as integrated carriers of vaccine adjuvants and other therapeutic agents. This review provides a summary of the properties and technologies for TCM cancer vaccines. Characteristics, categories, mechanisms, and preparation methods are discussed, as are the demonstrable additional benefits derived from combining TCM vaccines with chemotherapy, sonodynamic therapy, phototherapy, and oncolytic viruses. Further research in chemistry, biomedicine, cancer immunology, and bioinformatics to address current drawbacks could facilitate the clinical adoption of TCM vaccines.

Indexed as

cancer immunotherapycancer vaccinetumor cell membranetumor‐derived extracellular vesicles

Identifiers

PMID39713208
PMCPMC11655317

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