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ArticleSignal transduction and targeted therapy2025

Neutrophil-specific targeting of STAT3 impairs tumor progression via the expansion of cytotoxic CD8

Irem Ozel, Guanyu Sha, Agnieszka Będzińska, Ekaterina Pylaeva, Yuliia Naumova, Ilona Thiel, Joanna Antczak, Anthony Squire, Matthias Gunzer, Gennadiy Zelinskyy and 6 more

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Article in Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Leveraging Microphysiological Systems to Facilitate Neutrophil-Based Cancer Immunotherapy.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  4. Neutrophils in cancer.Nature reviews. Cancer · 2026
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  9. Albumin-Bound STING Agonist Reprograms HSPCs to Antitumor Neutrophils Enhancing CD8Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  11. A pathology-to-single-cell framework links SPP1Journal of translational medicine · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Irem OzelDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 45147, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7007-9928
Guanyu ShaDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 45147, Germany.
Agnieszka BędzińskaCenter for Translational Research and Molecular Biology of Cancer, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice, 44101, Poland.
Ekaterina PylaevaDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 45147, Germany.
Yuliia NaumovaDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 45147, Germany.
Ilona ThielDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 45147, Germany.
Joanna AntczakDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 45147, Germany.
Anthony SquireInstitute for Experimental Immunology and Imaging, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 45141, Germany.
Matthias GunzerInstitute for Experimental Immunology and Imaging, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 45141, Germany.
Gennadiy ZelinskyyInstitute for Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 45147, Germany.
Cornelius KürtenDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 45147, Germany.
Stephan LangDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 45147, Germany.
Carlos Silvestre-RoigInstitute of Experimental Pathology (ExPat), Center for Molecular Biology of Inflammation (ZMBE), University of Münster, Münster, 48149, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1169-7475
Marcin KortylewskiDepartment of Immuno-Oncology, Beckman Research Institute at City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA, 91010, USA.
Zvi GranotDepartment of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Medical Research Israel Canada, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel.
Jadwiga JablonskaDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, 45147, Germany. jadwiga.jablonska@uk-essen.de.ORCID 0000-0003-1490-2542

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) DFG/JA-2461/7-1Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) TRR332 project A05
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neutrophils have emerged as key players in tumor progression and are often associated with poor prognosis. Despite ongoing efforts to target neutrophil functions in cancer, therapeutic success has been limited. In this study, we addressed the possibility of blocking STAT3 signaling in neutrophils as a targeted therapeutic intervention in cancer. Conditional deletion of Stat3 in a neutrophil-specific manner (Ly6G

Indexed as

CD8-Positive T-LymphocytesNeoplasmsNeutrophilsSTAT3 Transcription FactorAnimalsCell Line, TumorDisease ProgressionHumansMiceSignal TransductionSTAT3 protein, humanStat3 protein, mouseSTAT3 Transcription Factor

Identifiers

PMID40885734
PMCPMC12398498

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