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ReviewCell insight2026

Challenges and opportunities: CAR-T cell therapy in autoimmune diseases.

Ran Yan, Songying Ye, Huji Xu

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Review in Cell insight, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Advances in targeted and cellular therapies for relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma: immunotherapeutic strategies and challenges.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 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ran YanDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, National Key Laboratory for Immunity and Inflammation, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, 200003, China.
Songying YeDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, National Key Laboratory for Immunity and Inflammation, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, 200003, China.
Huji XuDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, National Key Laboratory for Immunity and Inflammation, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, 200003, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy is rapidly moving from hematologic malignancies into severe autoimmune disease, particularly B cell-mediated disorders such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), systemic sclerosis (SSc) and inflammatory myopathies. Recent autologous and allogeneic studies show that deep immune-cell depletion can induce drug-free remission or major clinical responses in the refractory patients. However, translating CAR-T cell therapy into autoimmune disease raises challenges that differ from oncology, including target selection in heterogeneous immune ecosystems, depletion of nonpathogenic immune compartments, control of cytokine release syndrome and infection risk, definition of the optimal degree of CAR persistence, and scalable manufacturing. In this review, we summarize the major obstacles and emerging opportunities for CAR-T cell therapy in autoimmune diseases, with emphasis on representative clinical studies, candidate targets beyond CD19, engineering strategies to improve safety and durability, and the specific promise and limitations of allogeneic platforms.

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Allogeneic CAR-T cellsAutoimmune diseasesCAR-T cell therapy

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PMID42182589
PMCPMC13195762

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