Mitochondrial oxidative stress in the tumor microenvironment and cancer immunoescape: foe or friend?

CL Kuo, A Ponneri Babuharisankar, YC Lin… - Journal of biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
The major concept of" oxidative stress" is an excess elevated level of reactive oxygen
species (ROS) which are generated from vigorous metabolism and consumption of oxygen …

Intratumoral microbiota: roles in cancer initiation, development and therapeutic efficacy

L Yang, A Li, Y Wang, Y Zhang - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
Microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other eukaryotes, play critical roles in
human health. An altered microbiome can be associated with complex diseases …

Novel CRBN-recruiting proteolysis-targeting chimeras as degraders of stimulator of interferon genes with in vivo anti-inflammatory efficacy

J Liu, L Yuan, Y Ruan, B Deng, Z Yang… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The activation of the cyclic GMP-AMP synthase-stimulator of interferon gene (STING)
pathway has been associated with the pathogenesis of many autoimmune and inflammatory …

STING agonist cGAMP enhances anti-tumor activity of CAR-NK cells against pancreatic cancer

Y Da, Y Liu, Y Hu, W Liu, J Ma, N Lu, C Zhang… - …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Activation of the stimulator of interferon gene (STING)-mediated innate immune response
has been suggested as a promising therapeutic strategy for cancers. However, the effects of …

Immune escape and resistance to immunotherapy in mismatch repair deficient tumors

G Mestrallet, M Brown, CC Bozkus… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Up to 30% of colorectal, endometrial and gastric cancers have a deficiency in mismatch
repair (MMR) protein expression due to either germline or epigenetic inactivation. Patients …

Bioengineered neutrophil extinguisher targets cascade immune pathways of macrophages for alleviating cytokine storm in pneumonia

A Zhou, K Chen, Y Gao, X Zhou, Z Tian, W Chen… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cytokine storm is a common complication of COVID-19 pneumonia and has been proven to
contribute to high mortality rates. However, current treatment approaches exhibit limited …

Macrophage polarization in diabetic wound healing

X Wu, W He, X Mu, Y Liu, J Deng, Y Liu, X Nie - Burns & Trauma, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Impaired wound healing is one of the severe complications of diabetes. Macrophages have
been shown to play a vital role in wound healing. In different wound environments …

Immunotherapy approaches for the treatment of diffuse midline gliomas

JD Bernstock, SE Hoffman, AD Kappel… - …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Diffuse midline gliomas (DMG) are a highly aggressive and universally fatal subgroup of
pediatric tumors responsible for the majority of childhood brain tumor deaths. Median overall …

The reverse transcriptase inhibitor 3TC protects against age‐related cognitive dysfunction

D Wahl, ME Smith, CM McEntee, AN Cavalier… - Aging …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aging is the primary risk factor for most neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's
disease. Major hallmarks of brain aging include neuroinflammation/immune activation and …

MANF stimulates autophagy and restores mitochondrial homeostasis to treat autosomal dominant tubulointerstitial kidney disease in mice

Y Kim, C Li, C Gu, Y Fang, E Tycksen, A Puri… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Misfolded protein aggregates may cause toxic proteinopathy, including autosomal dominant
tubulointerstitial kidney disease due to uromodulin mutations (ADTKD-UMOD), a leading …