Tailoring vascular phenotype through AAV therapy promotes anti-tumor immunity in glioma

M Ramachandran, A Vaccaro, T van de Walle… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Glioblastomas are aggressive brain tumors that are largely immunotherapy resistant. This is
associated with immunosuppression and a dysfunctional tumor vasculature, which hinder T …

MHC class II-restricted antigen presentation is required to prevent dysfunction of cytotoxic T cells by blood-borne myeloids in brain tumors

M Kilian, R Sheinin, CL Tan, M Friedrich, C Krämer… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Cancer immunotherapy critically depends on fitness of cytotoxic and helper T cell
responses. Dysfunctional cytotoxic T cell states in the tumor microenvironment (TME) are a …

Combined cytotoxic and immune-stimulatory gene therapy using Ad-TK and Ad-Flt3L: Translational developments from rodents to glioma patients

SM Faisal, MG Castro, PR Lowenstein - Molecular Therapy, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Gliomas are the most prevalent and devastating primary malignant brain tumors in adults.
Despite substantial advances in understanding glioma biology, there have been no …

[HTML][HTML] Vagus nerve stimulation: Novel concept for the treatment of glioblastoma and solid cancers by cytokine (interleukin-6) reduction, attenuating the SASP …

S Brem - Brain, Behavior, & Immunity-Health, 2024 - Elsevier
Immuno-oncology, specifically immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), has revolutionized
cancer care with dramatic, long-term responses and increased survival, including patients …

Interplay between ATRX and IDH1 mutations governs innate immune responses in diffuse gliomas

S Hariharan, BT Whitfield, CJ Pirozzi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Stimulating the innate immune system has been explored as a therapeutic option for the
treatment of gliomas. Inactivating mutations in ATRX, defining molecular alterations in IDH …

[HTML][HTML] Macrophage-mediated myelin recycling fuels brain cancer malignancy

DJ Kloosterman, J Erbani, M Boon, M Farber… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Tumors growing in metabolically challenged environments, such as glioblastoma in the
brain, are particularly reliant on crosstalk with their tumor microenvironment (TME) to satisfy …

Neoadjuvant Triplet Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma

G Long, J Wilmott, E Shklovskaya, L Satgunseelan… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is an aggressive primary brain tumor with a dismal prognosis. Given the
paucity of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), an immune suppressive tumor …

Improved Computational Strategies to Investigate Mechanisms of Immune Response in the Tumor and Wound Healing Microenvironments from Single-Cell Data

KH Bridges - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Advances in single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology enable unbiased, whole
transcriptome profiling of tissues, which have revolutionized systems-level studies of these …

Human dendritic cell subsets in the glioblastoma-associated microenvironment

X Hu, C Jiang, Y Gao, X Xue - Journal of Neuroimmunology, 2023 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive type of glioma (Grade IV). The presence of
cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTLs) has been associated with improved outcomes in patients with …