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Record W4415526927 · doi:10.1016/j.smim.2025.102001

Antiviral humoral immunity: Enemy or ally of viral immunotherapy?

2025· article· en· W4415526927 on OpenAlexafffund
María Eugenia Dávola, Olga Cormier, Karen Mossman

Bibliographic record

VenueSeminars in Immunology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHerpesvirus Infections and Treatments
Canadian institutionsMcMaster UniversityMcMaster University Medical Centre
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchOntario Institute for Cancer Research
KeywordsOncolytic virusHumoral immunityImmune systemImmunityVirusImmunotherapyMyxoma virusAntibody

Abstract

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Oncolytic viruses are gaining traction as novel cancer immunotherapy tools given their ability to selectively target transformed cells. While direct tumor debulking was historically considered their primary mode of action, it is now appreciated that antitumor immunity significantly contributes to therapeutic efficacy. While T cells play a key role, less is known about humoral immunity in oncolytic virotherapy. While systemic delivery is the clinically preferred route for therapy administration, most oncolytic viruses are delivered directly to the tumor to avoid neutralization by pre-existing or therapy-induced immunity. In this review, we discuss emerging data showing the contribution of antiviral immunity to oncolytic activity along with growing evidence that questions dogma surrounding inhibitory activity of neutralizing antibodies. We further discuss how route of administration, tumor vascularization, host and cellular range, and oncolytic virus mechanism of action influence the role of the humoral immune response to therapy outcomes. We end the discussion with additional factors to consider, such as regulatory B cells, immunoglobulin isotype, Fc-mediated functions and the importance of choosing the right pre-clinical model that may contribute to overall therapy outcomes that are not routinely considered in pre-clinical and clinical studies of viral immunotherapies.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.018

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.003
Scholarly communication0.0030.004
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.309
Teacher spread0.298 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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