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ReviewBiomedicines2014

Tumor Restrictions to Oncolytic Virus.

Markus Vähä-Koskela, Ari Hinkkanen

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Review in Biomedicines, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
44citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Oncolytic Virotherapy in Solid Tumors: A Current Review.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2025
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  15. HSV: The scout and assault for digestive system tumors.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Markus Vähä-KoskelaInstitute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00790, Finland. markus.vaha-koskela@helsinki.fi.
Ari HinkkanenA.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio 70211, Finland. ari.hinkkanen@uef.fi.
University of Eastern Finland · FIUniversity of Helsinki · FI

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oncolytic virotherapy has advanced since the days of its conception but therapeutic efficacy in the clinics does not seem to reach the same level as in animal models. One reason is premature oncolytic virus clearance in humans, which is a reasonable assumption considering the immune-stimulating nature of the oncolytic agents. However, several studies are beginning to reveal layers of restriction to oncolytic virotherapy that are present before an adaptive neutralizing immune response. Some of these barriers are present constitutively halting infection before it even begins, whereas others are raised by minute cues triggered by virus infection. Indeed, we and others have noticed that delivering viruses to tumors may not be the biggest obstacle to successful therapy, but instead the physical make-up of the tumor and its capacity to mount antiviral defenses seem to be the most important efficacy determinants. In this review, we summarize the constitutive and innate barriers to oncolytic virotherapy and discuss strategies to overcome them.

Indexed as

antiviral defensesextracellular matrixinterferononcolytic virustight junctionstumor stroma

Identifiers

PMID28548066
PMCPMC5423468
OpenAlexW2054540190

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Registered trials

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