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ReviewJournal of translational medicine2025

Targeting inflammasomes as an immunotherapeutic strategy for cancer.

Luanluan Huang, Xiaoyan Chen, Ruiqi Liu, Ding Nan, Wenxuan Bao, Lixian Yang, Xiaomeng Dai, Jianming Tang, Haibo Zhang, Yanwei Lu

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Review in Journal of translational medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 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

10 authors.

Luanluan Huang *Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital (Affiliated People's Hospital), Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Xiaoyan Chen *Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital (Affiliated People's Hospital), Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Ruiqi Liu *Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital (Affiliated People's Hospital), Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Ding NanGraduate Department, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Wenxuan BaoDepartment of Medical Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Lixian YangCancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital (Affiliated People's Hospital), Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Xiaomeng DaiDepartment of Medical Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Jianming TangDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China. 15900792812@163.com.
Haibo ZhangCancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital (Affiliated People's Hospital), Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. zhbdoctor@163.com.ORCID 0000-0002-5134-4167
Yanwei LuCancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital (Affiliated People's Hospital), Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. 309960266@qq.com.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 82203377National Natural Science Foundation of China 82473238Zhejiang natural science foundation of China LQ22H160036Zhejiang Natural Science Foundation of China LY24H160022
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammasomes are essential regulators of innate immunity, inflammation, and cellular apoptosis, and they have surfaced as significant modulators of cancer progression and regulation. Inflammasomes are macromolecular complexes assembled in response to damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) and pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs). They induce inflammation via the oligomerization and activation of caspases. These cysteine proteases cleave the pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1β and IL-18 into their physiologically active mature versions. Recent discoveries reveal that inflammasomes are implicated not only in infections but also in malignancies, suggesting a significant connection between inflammation and tumor development. This article emphasizes that inflammasomes cause pyroptosis in a variety of immune cells, such as dendritic cells, macrophages, T cells, and fibroblasts, in addition to tumor cells. The induction of CD8

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ImmunotherapyInflammasomesMolecular Targeted TherapyNeoplasmsAnimalsHumansInflammationInflammasomesImmune cellsImmunotherapyInflammasomeTumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID40484954
PMCPMC12145604

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