Tumor microenvironment in glioblastoma: Current and emerging concepts

P Sharma, A Aaroe, J Liang… - Neuro-Oncology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) tumor microenvironment (TME) is a highly heterogeneous and complex
system, which in addition to cancer cells, consists of various resident brain and immune cells …

Targeting of CD163+ Macrophages in Inflammatory and Malignant Diseases

MK Skytthe, JH Graversen, SK Moestrup - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The macrophage is a key cell in the pro-and anti-inflammatory response including that of the
inflammatory microenvironment of malignant tumors. Much current drug development in …

CTLA-4 blockade induces a microglia-Th1 cell partnership that stimulates microglia phagocytosis and anti-tumor function in glioblastoma

D Chen, SK Varanasi, T Hara, K Traina, M Sun… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
The limited efficacy of immunotherapies against glioblastoma underscores the urgency of
better understanding immunity in the central nervous system. We found that treatment with …

Specific targeting of glioblastoma with an oncolytic virus expressing a cetuximab-CCL5 fusion protein via innate and adaptive immunity

L Tian, B Xu, Y Chen, Z Li, J Wang, J Zhang, R Ma… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Chemokines such as CC motif ligand 5 (CCL5) regulate immune cell trafficking in the tumor
microenvironment (TME) and govern tumor development, making them promising targets for …

Myeloid cells in glioblastoma microenvironment

A De Leo, A Ugolini, F Veglia - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive, malignant primary brain tumor in adults. GBM is
notoriously resistant to immunotherapy mainly due to its unique immune microenvironment …

Tumor-associated microglia and macrophages in the glioblastoma microenvironment and their implications for therapy

RS Andersen, A Anand, DSL Harwood, BW Kristensen - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Patients with glioblastoma—the most frequent and malignant primary brain
tumor—have a poor prognosis with a median survival of less than 15 months. Despite …

Cancer cell heterogeneity & plasticity in glioblastoma and brain tumors

A Lauko, A Lo, MS Ahluwalia, JD Lathia - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Brain tumors remain one of the most difficult tumors to treat and, depending on the
diagnosis, have a poor prognosis. Of brain tumors, glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common …

Glioblastoma immune landscape and the potential of new immunotherapies

T Daubon, A Hemadou, I Romero Garmendia… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma (GBM) are the most common tumors of the central nervous system and among
the deadliest cancers in adults. GBM overall survival has not improved over the last decade …

Epidemiology of brain and other CNS tumors

QT Ostrom, SS Francis, JS Barnholtz-Sloan - Current neurology and …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Brain and other central nervous system (CNS) tumors, while
rare, cause significant morbidity and mortality across all ages. This article summarizes the …

Translational landscape of glioblastoma immunotherapy for physicians: guiding clinical practice with basic scientific evidence

D Kreatsoulas, C Bolyard, BX Wu, H Cam… - Journal of Hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
Despite recent advances in cancer therapeutics, glioblastoma (GBM) remains one of the
most difficult cancers to treat in both the primary and recurrent settings. GBM presents a …