The role of the immune microenvironment in bone, cartilage, and soft tissue regeneration: from mechanism to therapeutic opportunity

Y Xiong, BB Mi, Z Lin, YQ Hu, L Yu, KK Zha… - Military Medical …, 2022 - Springer
Bone, cartilage, and soft tissue regeneration is a complex spatiotemporal process recruiting
a variety of cell types, whose activity and interplay must be precisely mediated for effective …

Natural killer cells in cancer biology and therapy

SY Wu, T Fu, YZ Jiang, ZM Shao - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
The tumor microenvironment is highly complex, and immune escape is currently considered
an important hallmark of cancer, largely contributing to tumor progression and metastasis …

Granzyme A from cytotoxic lymphocytes cleaves GSDMB to trigger pyroptosis in target cells

Z Zhou, H He, K Wang, X Shi, Y Wang, Y Su, Y Wang… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION In cellular immunity, cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and natural killer (NK)
cells use perforin to deliver serine protease granzymes into target cells to kill them …

[HTML][HTML] NK cells switch from granzyme B to death receptor–mediated cytotoxicity during serial killing

I Prager, C Liesche, H Van Ooijen, D Urlaub… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - rupress.org
NK cells eliminate virus-infected and tumor cells by releasing cytotoxic granules containing
granzyme B (GrzB) or by engaging death receptors that initiate caspase cascades. The …

All about (NK cell-mediated) death in two acts and an unexpected encore: initiation, execution and activation of adaptive immunity

A Ramírez-Labrada, C Pesini, L Santiago… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
NK cells are key mediators of immune cell-mediated cytotoxicity toward infected and
transformed cells, being one of the main executors of cell death in the immune system. NK …

Lipid anchor-mediated NK cell surface engineering for enhanced cancer immunotherapy

S Kim, S Li, M Gajendiran, AK Jangid, DJ Lee… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Current natural killer (NK) cell-based cancer immunotherapy for the treatment of solid tumors
often exhibits insufficient cancer recognition specificity, thereby limiting therapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] Remodeling tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) for glioma therapy using multi-targeting liposomal codelivery

Z Zheng, J Zhang, J Jiang, Y He, W Zhang… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Glioblastoma (GBM) treatment is undermined by the suppressive tumor immune
microenvironment (TIME). Seek for effective methods for brain TIME modulation is a …

NK cells in the tumor microenvironment

C Guillerey - Tumor Microenvironment: Hematopoietic Cells–Part B, 2020 - Springer
Natural killer cells are powerful effectors of innate immunity that constitute a first line of
defense against cancer. NK cells express an array of germline-encoded receptors which …

Escaping death: how cancer cells and infected cells resist cell-mediated cytotoxicity

K Tuomela, AR Ambrose, DM Davis - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cytotoxic lymphocytes are critical in our immune defence against cancer and infection.
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes and Natural Killer cells can directly lyse malignant or infected cells …

Modulation of the tumor microenvironment (TME) by melatonin

Q Mu, M Najafi - European journal of pharmacology, 2021 - Elsevier
The tumor microenvironment (TME) includes a number of non-cancerous cells that affect
cancer cell survival. Although CD8+ T lymphocytes and natural killer (NK) cells suppress …