Recent developments in glioblastoma therapy: oncolytic viruses and emerging future strategies

A Hamad, GM Yusubalieva, VP Baklaushev… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive form of malignant brain tumor. Standard treatment
protocols and traditional immunotherapy are poorly effective as they do not significantly …

Combinatorial approaches for cancer treatment using oncolytic viruses: projecting the perspectives through clinical trials outcomes

A Malogolovkin, N Gasanov, A Egorov, M Weener… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recent cancer immunotherapy breakthroughs have fundamentally changed oncology and
revived the fading hope for a cancer cure. The immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) became …

A nitric-oxide driven chemotactic nanomotor for enhanced immunotherapy of glioblastoma

H Chen, T Li, Z Liu, S Tang, J Tong, Y Tao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The major challenges of immunotherapy for glioblastoma are that drugs cannot target tumor
sites accurately and properly activate complex immune responses. Herein, we design and …

Fueling immune checkpoint blockade with oncolytic viruses: current paradigms and challenges ahead

SJ Li, ZJ Sun - Cancer Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
An emerging challenge in improving response rates to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) is
to convert an immune cold tumour into a hot tumour. Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are seen as a …

Combination therapy with oncolytic viruses and immune checkpoint inhibitors

M Chiu, EJL Armstrong, V Jennings, S Foo… - Expert opinion on …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have dramatically improved the outcome for
cancer patients across multiple tumor types. However the response rates to ICI monotherapy …

Gospel of malignant glioma: oncolytic virus therapy

J Li, Q Meng, X Zhou, H Zhao, K Wang, H Niu, Y Wang - Gene, 2022 - Elsevier
Glioma accounts for nearly 80% of all intracranial malignant tumors. It is a major challenge
to society as it is causes to impaired brain function in many patients. Currently, gliomas are …

Genetic driver mutations introduced in identical cell‐of‐origin in murine glioblastoma reveal distinct immune landscapes but similar response to checkpoint blockade

Z Chen, CJ Herting, JL Ross, B Gabanic… - Glia, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive primary brain tumor. In addition to being
genetically heterogeneous, GBMs are also immunologically heterogeneous. However …

The current state of oncolytic herpes simplex virus for glioblastoma treatment

HM Nguyen, D Saha - Oncolytic Virotherapy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a lethal primary malignant brain tumor with no current effective
treatments. The recent emergence of immuno-virotherapy and FDA approval of T-VEC have …

The effect of herpes simplex virus-type-1 (HSV-1) oncolytic immunotherapy on the tumor microenvironment

IK Uche, KG Kousoulas, PJF Rider - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
The development of cancer causes disruption of anti-tumor immunity required for
surveillance and elimination of tumor cells. Immunotherapeutic strategies aim for the …

Oncolytic viruses as a platform for the treatment of malignant brain tumors

J Sostoa, V Dutoit, D Migliorini - International journal of molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Malignant brain tumors remain incurable diseases. Although much effort has been devoted
to improving patient outcome, multiple factors such as the high tumor heterogeneity, the …