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ReviewJournal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR2024

The crosstalk between immune cells and tumor pyroptosis: advancing cancer immunotherapy strategies.

Mengyuan Hu, Fengying Deng, Xinlei Song, Hongkun Zhao, Fei Yan

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Review in Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
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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

36 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. How to recognize if a cell dies from pyroptosis?Molecular biology reports · 2026
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  12. HIFU-Driven Targeted Pyroptosis Therapy in Basal-Like Breast Cancer.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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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

5 authors.

Mengyuan Hu *Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Kunming Medical University, Chenggong District, 1168 Chunrong West Road, Yunhua Street, Kunming, 650500, Yunnan, China.
Fengying Deng *Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Kunming Medical University, Chenggong District, 1168 Chunrong West Road, Yunhua Street, Kunming, 650500, Yunnan, China.
Xinlei SongDepartment of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Kunming Medical University, Chenggong District, 1168 Chunrong West Road, Yunhua Street, Kunming, 650500, Yunnan, China.
Hongkun ZhaoKey Laboratory of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Eye Institute, Affiliated Hospital of Yunnan University, Yunnan University, 176 Qingnian Road, Wuhua District, Kunming, 650031, Yunnan, China. m15087072917_1@163.com.
Fei YanDepartment of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Kunming Medical University, Chenggong District, 1168 Chunrong West Road, Yunhua Street, Kunming, 650500, Yunnan, China. yanfei@kmmu.edu.cn.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pyroptosis is a cell death process characterized by cell swelling until membrane rupture and release of intracellular contents. As an effective tumor treatment strategy, inducing tumor cell pyroptosis has received widespread attention. In this process, the immune components within the tumor microenvironment play a key regulatory role. By regulating and altering the functions of immune cells such as cytotoxic T lymphocytes, natural killer cells, tumor-associated macrophages, and neutrophils, tumor cell pyroptosis can be induced. This article provides a comprehensive review of the molecular mechanisms of cell pyroptosis, the impact of the tumor immune microenvironment on tumor cell pyroptosis, and its mechanisms. It aims to gain an in-depth understanding of the communication between the tumor immune microenvironment and tumor cells, and to provide theoretical support for the development of new tumor immunotherapies.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyNeoplasmsPyroptosisAnimalsHumansTumor MicroenvironmentImmune cellsImmunotherapiesPyroptosisTumorTumor immune microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID38987821
PMCPMC11234789

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