Single-cell RNA sequencing shows the immunosuppressive landscape and tumor heterogeneity of HBV-associated hepatocellular carcinoma

DWH Ho, YM Tsui, LK Chan, KMF Sze, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Interaction between tumor cells and immune cells in the tumor microenvironment is
important in cancer development. Immune cells interact with the tumor cells to shape this …

Global immune characterization of HBV/HCV-related hepatocellular carcinoma identifies macrophage and T-cell subsets associated with disease progression

G Song, Y Shi, M Zhang, S Goswami, S Afridi, L Meng… - Cell discovery, 2020 - nature.com
Diverse immune cells in the tumor microenvironment form a complex ecosystem, but our
knowledge of their heterogeneity and dynamics within hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) still …

The immune contexture of hepatocellular carcinoma predicts clinical outcome

F Foerster, M Hess, A Gerhold-Ay, JU Marquardt… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The general relevance of the immune system for cancer development and therapy is
increasingly recognized. However and although the immune contexture of most human …

Intratumoural immune heterogeneity as a hallmark of tumour evolution and progression in hepatocellular carcinoma

PHD Nguyen, S Ma, CZJ Phua, NA Kaya… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The clinical relevance of immune landscape intratumoural heterogeneity (immune-ITH) and
its role in tumour evolution remain largely unexplored. Here, we uncover significant spatial …

Delineation of an immunosuppressive gradient in hepatocellular carcinoma using high-dimensional proteomic and transcriptomic analyses

V Chew, L Lai, L Pan, CJ Lim, J Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The recent development of immunotherapy as a cancer treatment has proved effective over
recent years, but the precise dynamics between the tumor microenvironment (TME) …

Classification of primary liver cancer with immunosuppression mechanisms and correlation with genomic alterations

M Fujita, R Yamaguchi, T Hasegawa, S Shimada… - …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background The tumor microenvironment can be classified into immunologically active"
inflamed" tumors and inactive" non-inflamed" tumors based on the infiltration of cytotoxic …

Identification of an immune-specific class of hepatocellular carcinoma, based on molecular features

D Sia, Y Jiao, I Martinez-Quetglas, O Kuchuk… - Gastroenterology, 2017 - Elsevier
Background & aims Agents that induce an immune response against tumors by altering T-
cell regulation have increased survival times of patients with advanced-stage tumors, such …

A single-cell atlas of the multicellular ecosystem of primary and metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma

Y Lu, A Yang, C Quan, Y Pan, H Zhang, Y Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) represents a paradigm of the relation between tumor
microenvironment (TME) and tumor development. Here, we generate a single-cell atlas of …

[HTML][HTML] Landscape of infiltrating T cells in liver cancer revealed by single-cell sequencing

C Zheng, L Zheng, JK Yoo, H Guo, Y Zhang, X Guo… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Systematic interrogation of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes is key to the development of
immunotherapies and the prediction of their clinical responses in cancers. Here, we perform …

Multidimensional analyses reveal distinct immune microenvironment in hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma

CJ Lim, YH Lee, L Pan, L Lai, C Chua, M Wasser… - Gut, 2019 - gut.bmj.com
Background and aims Chronic inflammation induced by chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV)
infection increases the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, little is known …