Injectable hydrogels for personalized cancer immunotherapies

N Mohaghegh, A Ahari, F Zehtabi, C Buttles, S Davani… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
The field of cancer immunotherapy has shown significant growth, and researchers are now
focusing on effective strategies to enhance and prolong local immunomodulation. Injectable …

Diversity of immune checkpoints in cancer immunotherapy

Z Guo, R Zhang, AG Yang, G Zheng - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Finding effective treatments for cancer remains a challenge. Recent studies have found that
the mechanisms of tumor evasion are becoming increasingly diverse, including abnormal …

Review of the immune checkpoint inhibitors in the context of cancer treatment

NA Alturki - Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2023 - mdpi.com
Checkpoint proteins are an integral part of the immune system and are used by the tumor
cells to evade immune response, which helps them grow uncontrollably. By blocking these …

Combination of hyaluronic acid conjugates with immunogenic cell death inducer and CpG for glioblastoma local chemo-immunotherapy elicits an immune response …

G Catania, G Rodella, K Vanvarenberg, V Préat… - Biomaterials, 2023 - Elsevier
The efficacy of standard glioblastoma (GBM) treatments has been limited due to the highly
immunosuppressive tumor immune microenvironment, interpatient tumor heterogenicity and …

Extracellular vesicle–based drug delivery in cancer immunotherapy

S Najafi, J Majidpoor, K Mortezaee - Drug Delivery and Translational …, 2023 - Springer
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are a group of nanoscale membrane-bound organelles
including exosomes, microvesicles (MVs), membrane particles, and apoptotic bodies, which …

Reprogramming of Treg cells in the inflammatory microenvironment during immunotherapy: a literature review

X Wu, Z Zhou, Q Cao, Y Chen, J Gong… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Regulatory T cells (Treg), as members of CD4+ T cells, have garnered extensive attention in
the research of tumor progression. Treg cells have the function of inhibiting the immune …

Recent advances in molecular mechanisms of cancer immunotherapy

M Kciuk, EB Yahya, M Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The cancer-immunity cycle is characterized by various stimulatory and
inhibitory factors, which together regulate the immune response and halt the extreme …

Immunotherapy: cancer immunotherapy and its combination with nanomaterials and other therapies

Y Guo, F Gao, A Ahmed, M Rafiq, B Yu… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Immunotherapy is a new type of tumor treatment after surgery, radiotherapy and
chemotherapy, which can be used to manage and destroy tumor cells through activating or …

Whole tumour cell-based vaccines: tuning the instruments to orchestrate an optimal antitumour immune response

A Pérez-Baños, MA Gleisner, I Flores, C Pereda… - British Journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
Immunotherapy, particularly those based on immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), has
become a useful approach for many neoplastic diseases. Despite the improvements of ICIs …

STING activation in macrophages by vanillic acid exhibits antineoplastic potential

M Zhu, X Tang, Z Zhu, Z Gong, W Tang, Y Hu… - Biochemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
The host stimulator of interferon genes (STING) signaling pathway is a major innate immune
sensing pathway, and the stimulation of this pathway within antigen-presenting cells shows …