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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2025

Immune inhibitory receptor agonist therapeutics.

Rustin R Lovewell, Solomon Langermann, Dallas B Flies

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2025. 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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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Rustin R LovewellNextCure, Beltsville, MD, United States.
Solomon LangermannNextCure, Beltsville, MD, United States.
Dallas B FliesNextCure, Beltsville, MD, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The immune system maintains the health of an organism through complex sensing and communication mechanisms. Receptors on the surface of immune cells respond to stimuli resulting in activity described at its most basic as inhibitory or stimulatory. Significant progress in therapeutic intervention has occurred by modulating these pathways, yet much remains to be accomplished. Therapeutics that antagonize, or block, immune inhibitory receptor (IIR) pathways, such as checkpoint inhibitors in cancer are a key example. Antagonism of immune stimulatory receptors (ISRs) for dysregulated inflammation and autoimmunity have received significant attention. An alternative strategy is to agonize, or induce signaling, in immune pathways to treat disease. Agonism of ISRs has been employed with some success in disease settings, but agonist therapeutics of IIRs have great, untapped potential. This review discusses and highlights recent advances in pre-clinical and clinical therapeutics designed to agonize IIR pathways to treat diseases. In addition, an understanding of IIR agonists based on activity at a cellular level as either agonist suppression of stimulatory cells (SuSt), or a new concept, agonist suppression of suppressive cells (SuSu) is proposed.

Indexed as

Receptors, ImmunologicAnimalsHumansNeoplasmsSignal TransductionReceptors, ImmunologicagonistimmuneinhibitoryreceptorSuStSuSutherapeutic

Identifiers

PMID40207220
PMCPMC11979287

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