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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Current natural killer (NK) cell-based cancer immunotherapy for the treatment of solid tumors often exhibits insufficient cancer recognition specificity, thereby limiting therapeutic …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …