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 …

Emerging phagocytosis checkpoints in cancer immunotherapy

Y Liu, Y Wang, Y Yang, L Weng, Q Wu… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer immunotherapy, mainly including immune checkpoints-targeted therapy and the
adoptive transfer of engineered immune cells, has revolutionized the oncology landscape as …

Role of exosomal non-coding RNAs from tumor cells and tumor-associated macrophages in the tumor microenvironment

Z Xu, Y Chen, L Ma, Y Chen, J Liu, Y Guo, T Yu… - Molecular Therapy, 2022 - cell.com
Exosomes have a crucial role in intercellular communication and mediate interactions
between tumor cells and tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs). Exosome-encapsulated …

Phagocytosis checkpoints as new targets for cancer immunotherapy

M Feng, W Jiang, BYS Kim, CC Zhang, YX Fu… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Cancer immunotherapies targeting adaptive immune checkpoints have substantially
improved patient outcomes across multiple metastatic and treatment-refractory cancer types …

Strategies, design, and chemistry in siRNA delivery systems

Y Dong, DJ Siegwart, DG Anderson - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Emerging therapeutics that utilize RNA interference (RNAi) have the potential to treat broad
classes of diseases due to their ability to reversibly silence target genes. In August 2018, the …

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 …

Synergistic and low adverse effect cancer immunotherapy by immunogenic chemotherapy and locally expressed PD-L1 trap

W Song, L Shen, Y Wang, Q Liu, TJ Goodwin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Although great success has been obtained in the clinic, the current immune checkpoint
inhibitors still face two challenging problems: low response rate and immune-related …

[HTML][HTML] Phagocytic function of tumor-associated macrophages as a key determinant of tumor progression control: a review

M Lecoultre, V Dutoit, PR Walker - Journal for immunotherapy of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tumor-associated macrophage (TAM) phagocytic activity is emerging as a new mechanism
to harness for cancer treatment. Currently, many approaches are investigated at the …

The interaction between signal regulatory protein alpha (SIRPα) and CD47: structure, function, and therapeutic target

AN Barclay, TK Van den Berg - Annual review of immunology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
CD47 is a broadly expressed membrane protein that interacts with the myeloid inhibitory
immunoreceptor SIRPα (also termed CD172a or SHPS-1). SIRPα is the prototypic member …

Nanoparticle-based immunotherapy for cancer

K Shao, S Singha, X Clemente-Casares, S Tsai… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The design of nanovaccines capable of triggering effective antitumor immunity requires an
understanding of how the immune system senses and responds to threats, including …