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ArticleiScience2025

Macrophage repolarization by immune checkpoint blockade drives T cell engagement in the tumor microenvironment.

Tina Kwok, Ildefonso A Silva-Junior, Sara Korpe, Haidong Dong, Jessica N Lancaster

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Article in iScience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Targeting CD24 Activates Macrophages to Reduce Tumor Burden in Preclinical Models of Solid Tumors.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Tina KwokDepartment of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ 85054, USA.
Ildefonso A Silva-JuniorDepartment of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ 85054, USA.
Sara KorpeDepartment of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ 85054, USA.
Haidong DongDepartment of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
Jessica N LancasterDepartment of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ 85054, USA.

Funding

The role of lymph node structural organization in naïve T cell decline with ageR01AG080037 · NIA · MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA · PI Jessica N Lancaster · 2023 to 2026
$2.4M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG080037
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunotherapy combinations can improve patient outcomes, yet the interactions within the tumor microenvironment (TME) that drive therapeutic synergy are poorly understood. Tumor establishment drives monocyte recruitment and differentiation into tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs), which have essential roles in coordinating immune responses and are thus attractive targets for therapeutic modulation. In a murine model of combination anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) and its ligand (anti-PD-L1) checkpoint blockade, tumor control was associated with increased infiltration of CD8

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CancerImmunologyMicroenvironment

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PMID41050935
PMCPMC12494938

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