Immunostimulation with chemotherapy in the era of immune checkpoint inhibitors

L Galluzzi, J Humeau, A Buqué, L Zitvogel… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Conventional chemotherapeutics have been developed into clinically useful agents based
on their ability to preferentially kill malignant cells, generally owing to their elevated …

Engineering macrophages for cancer immunotherapy and drug delivery

Y Xia, L Rao, H Yao, Z Wang, P Ning… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Macrophages play an important role in cancer development and metastasis.
Proinflammatory M1 macrophages can phagocytose tumor cells, while anti‐inflammatory M2 …

[HTML][HTML] Consensus guidelines for the definition, detection and interpretation of immunogenic cell death

L Galluzzi, I Vitale, S Warren, S Adjemian… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cells succumbing to stress via regulated cell death (RCD) can initiate an adaptive immune
response associated with immunological memory, provided they display sufficient …

Targeting signalling pathways and the immune microenvironment of cancer stem cells—a clinical update

JA Clara, C Monge, Y Yang, N Takebe - Nature reviews clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) have important roles in tumour development, relapse and
metastasis; the intrinsic self-renewal characteristics and tumorigenic properties of these cells …

Hybrid cellular membrane nanovesicles amplify macrophage immune responses against cancer recurrence and metastasis

L Rao, L Wu, Z Liu, R Tian, G Yu, Z Zhou… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Effectively activating macrophages against cancer is promising but challenging. In particular,
cancer cells express CD47, a 'don't eat me'signal that interacts with signal regulatory protein …

The CD47-SIRPα immune checkpoint

MEW Logtenberg, FA Scheeren, TN Schumacher - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
The cytotoxic activity of myeloid cells is regulated by a balance of signals that are transmitted
through inhibitory and activating receptors. The Cluster of Differentiation 47 (CD47) protein …

Advances in anti-tumor treatments targeting the CD47/SIRPα axis

W Zhang, Q Huang, W Xiao, Y Zhao, J Pi, H Xu… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
CD47 is an immunoglobulin that is overexpressed on the surface of many types of cancer
cells. CD47 forms a signaling complex with signal-regulatory protein α (SIRPα), enabling the …

Myeloid immunosuppression and immune checkpoints in the tumor microenvironment

K Nakamura, MJ Smyth - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Tumor-promoting inflammation and the avoidance of immune destruction are hallmarks of
cancer. While innate immune cells, such as neutrophils, monocytes, and macrophages, are …

Activating macrophage‐mediated cancer immunotherapy by genetically edited nanoparticles

L Rao, SK Zhao, C Wen, R Tian, L Lin, B Cai… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Immunomodulation of macrophages against cancer has emerged as an encouraging
therapeutic strategy. However, there exist two major challenges in effectively activating …

Advances in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia: new drugs and new challenges

NJ Short, M Konopleva, TM Kadia, G Borthakur… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
The therapeutic armamentarium of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has rapidly expanded in
the past few years, driven largely by translational research into its genomic landscape and …