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ReviewNeoplasia (New York, N.Y.)2025

Exosomes in review: A new frontier in CAR-T cell therapies.

John S Wang, Samuel J Schellenberg, Athena Demeros, Adam Y Lin

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Review in Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing 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

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

24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Emerging strategies to reduce the side effects of CAR-T cell therapy: focusing on gene editing and nanotechnology.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  4. Beyond the infusion: nursing at the vanguard of cytokine release syndrome rescue in CAR-T cell therapy.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  6. Beyond autologousMolecular therapy. Oncology · 2026
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  16. Tumor-derived extracellular vesicles: Bridging communication and next-generation theranostics.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2025
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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.

John S WangNorthwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Samuel J SchellenbergNorthwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Athena DemerosNorthwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Adam Y LinNorthwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Chicago, IL, USA; Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: adam.lin@northwestern.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exosomes are extracellular vehicles that facilitate intra-cellular communication via transport of critical proteins and genetic material. Every exosome is intrinsically reflective of the cell from which it was derived and can even mimic effector functions of their parent cells. In recent years, with the success of CAR-T therapies, there has been growing interest in characterizing exosomes derived from CAR-T cells. CAR exosomes contain the same cytotoxic granules as their parent cells and have demonstrated significant anti-tumor activity in vitro and in animal models. Moreover, infusion of CAR exosomes in animal models did not generate cytokine release syndrome. Conversely, there are also novel bispecific antibodies which target tumor-derived exosomes in hopes of derailing immunosuppressive pathways mediated by exosomes produced from malignant cells. The two most promising examples include (a) BsE CD73 x EpCAM which binds and inhibits exosomal CD73 to suppress production of immunosuppressant adenosine and (b) BsE CD3 x PD-L1 which targets exosomal PD-L1 within the tumor microenvironment to guide cytotoxic T-cells towards tumor cells. As our understanding of exosome biology continues to evolve, opportunities for advances in cellular therapies will grow in tandem.

Indexed as

ExosomesImmunotherapy, AdoptiveNeoplasmsReceptors, Chimeric AntigenT-LymphocytesAnimalsHumansTumor MicroenvironmentReceptors, Chimeric AntigenChimeric antigen T cell therapyExosomeImmunotherapy

Identifiers

PMID40037165
PMCPMC11923832

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