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ReviewFrontiers in genetics2021

Immunotherapy Resistance in Glioblastoma.

Elaina J Wang, Jia-Shu Chen, Saket Jain, Ramin A Morshed, Alexander F Haddad, Sabraj Gill, Angad S Beniwal, Manish K Aghi

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Review in Frontiers in genetics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Elaina J WangDepartment of Neurological Surgery, The Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.
Jia-Shu ChenDepartment of Neurological Surgery, The Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.
Saket JainDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Ramin A MorshedDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Alexander F HaddadDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Sabraj GillDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Angad S BeniwalDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Manish K AghiDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Neurological Surgery · USBrown University · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Tumor cell and microenvironment changes causing antiangiogenic therapy resistanceR01NS079697 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI AGHI, MANISH · 2013 to 2021
$3.2M
Modeling and druggable-genome screening of glioblastoma invasion using regional biopsy-guided biomaterials systemsR01CA227136 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI AGHI, MANISH · 2018 to 2022
$2.2M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA227136NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS079697
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastoma is the most common malignant primary brain tumor in adults. Despite treatment consisting of surgical resection followed by radiotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy, survival remains poor at a rate of 26.5% at 2 years. Recent successes in using immunotherapies to treat a number of solid and hematologic cancers have led to a growing interest in harnessing the immune system to target glioblastoma. Several studies have examined the efficacy of various immunotherapies, including checkpoint inhibitors, vaccines, adoptive transfer of lymphocytes, and oncolytic virotherapy in both pre-clinical and clinical settings. However, these therapies have yielded mixed results at best when applied to glioblastoma. While the initial failures of immunotherapy were thought to reflect the immunoprivileged environment of the brain, more recent studies have revealed immune escape mechanisms created by the tumor itself and adaptive resistance acquired in response to therapy. Several of these resistance mechanisms hijack key signaling pathways within the immune system to create a protumoral microenvironment. In this review, we discuss immunotherapies that have been trialed in glioblastoma, mechanisms of tumor resistance, and strategies to sensitize these tumors to immunotherapies. Insights gained from the studies summarized here may help pave the way for novel therapies to overcome barriers that have thus far limited the success of immunotherapy in glioblastoma.

Indexed as

CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) T cellscheckpoint inhibitorsglioblastomaimmunoprivilegeimmunotherapyresistancevaccinevirotherapy

Identifiers

PMID34976006
PMCPMC8718605
OpenAlexW4200562336

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