Tumour-associated macrophages as treatment targets in oncology

A Mantovani, F Marchesi, A Malesci, L Laghi… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2017 - nature.com
Macrophages are crucial drivers of tumour-promoting inflammation. Tumour-associated
macrophages (TAMs) contribute to tumour progression at different levels: by promoting …

Immunogenic cell death in cancer and infectious disease

L Galluzzi, A Buqué, O Kepp, L Zitvogel… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Immunogenicity depends on two key factors: antigenicity and adjuvanticity. The presence of
exogenous or mutated antigens explains why infected cells and malignant cells can initiate …

Gastric adenocarcinoma

JA Ajani, J Lee, T Sano, YY Janjigian, D Fan… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2017 - nature.com
Gastric cancers, with gastric adenocarcinoma (GAC) as the most common histological type,
impose a considerable global health burden. Although the screening strategies for early …

The CD47‐SIRPα signaling axis as an innate immune checkpoint in cancer

HL Matlung, K Szilagyi, NA Barclay… - Immunological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Immune checkpoint inhibitors, including those targeting CTLA‐4/B7 and the PD‐1/PD‐L1
inhibitory pathways, are now available for clinical use in cancer patients, with other …

Biology and relevance of human acute myeloid leukemia stem cells

D Thomas, R Majeti - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 2017 - ashpublications.org
Evidence of human acute myeloid leukemia stem cells (AML LSCs) was first reported nearly
2 decades ago through the identification of rare subpopulations of engrafting cells in …

Cell death and immunity in cancer: from danger signals to mimicry of pathogen defense responses

AD Garg, P Agostinis - Immunological reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The immunogenicity of cancer cells is an emerging determinant of anti‐cancer
immunotherapy. Beyond developing immunostimulatory regimens like dendritic cell‐based …

Disrupting the CD47-SIRPα anti-phagocytic axis by a humanized anti-CD47 antibody is an efficacious treatment for malignant pediatric brain tumors

S Gholamin, SS Mitra, AH Feroze, J Liu… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
Morbidity and mortality associated with pediatric malignant primary brain tumors remain high
in the absence of effective therapies. Macrophage-mediated phagocytosis of tumor cells via …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer immunotherapy targeting the CD47/SIRPα axis

K Weiskopf - European journal of cancer, 2017 - Elsevier
The success of cancer immunotherapy has generated tremendous interest in identifying new
immunotherapeutic targets. To date, the majority of therapies have focussed on stimulating …

Integrating proteomics and transcriptomics for systematic combinatorial chimeric antigen receptor therapy of AML

F Perna, SH Berman, RK Soni, J Mansilla-Soto… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy targeting CD19 has yielded remarkable outcomes
in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. To identify potential CAR targets in acute …

Exosome-SIRPα, a CD47 blockade increases cancer cell phagocytosis

E Koh, EJ Lee, GH Nam, Y Hong, E Cho, Y Yang… - Biomaterials, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract CD47, a “don't eat me” signal, is over-expressed on the surface of most tumors that
interacts with signal regulatory protein α (SIRPα) on phagocytic cells. By engaging SIRPα …