Hypoxic microenvironment in cancer: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic interventions

Z Chen, F Han, Y Du, H Shi, W Zhou - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
Having a hypoxic microenvironment is a common and salient feature of most solid tumors.
Hypoxia has a profound effect on the biological behavior and malignant phenotype of …

Immunotherapy: reshape the tumor immune microenvironment

B Lv, Y Wang, D Ma, W Cheng, J Liu, T Yong… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) include tumor cells, immune cells, cytokines, etc.
The interactions between these components, which are divided into anti-tumor and pro …

Therapeutic targeting of the hypoxic tumour microenvironment

DC Singleton, A Macann, WR Wilson - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2021 - nature.com
Hypoxia is prevalent in human tumours and contributes to microenvironments that shape
cancer evolution and adversely affect therapeutic outcomes. Historically, two different …

The adenosine pathway in immuno-oncology

B Allard, D Allard, L Buisseret, J Stagg - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer immunotherapy based on immune-checkpoint inhibition or adoptive cell therapy has
revolutionized cancer care. Nevertheless, a large proportion of patients do not benefit from …

Overcoming tumor hypoxia as a barrier to radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy in cancer treatment

K Graham, E Unger - International journal of nanomedicine, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Hypoxia exists to some degree in most solid tumors due to inadequate oxygen delivery of
the abnormal vasculature which cannot meet the demands of the rapidly proliferating cancer …

Targeting immunosuppressive adenosine in cancer

D Vijayan, A Young, MWL Teng, MJ Smyth - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Despite the success of anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (PD1), anti-PD1 ligand 1
(PDL1) and anti-cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA4) therapies in advanced cancer, a …

Targeting adenosine in cancer immunotherapy to enhance T-cell function

S Vigano, D Alatzoglou, M Irving… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
T cells play a critical role in cancer control, but a range of potent immunosuppressive
mechanisms can be upregulated in the tumor microenvironment (TME) to abrogate their …

ATP and cancer immunosurveillance

O Kepp, L Bezu, T Yamazaki, F Di Virgilio… - The EMBO …, 2021 - embopress.org
While intracellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP) occupies a key position in the bioenergetic
metabolism of all the cellular compartments that form the tumor microenvironment (TME) …

The ectonucleotidases CD 39 and CD 73: novel checkpoint inhibitor targets

B Allard, MS Longhi, SC Robson… - Immunological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Cancers are able to grow by subverting immune suppressive pathways, to prevent the
malignant cells as being recognized as dangerous or foreign. This mechanism prevents the …

Hypoxia-inducible factors: master regulators of cancer progression

L Schito, GL Semenza - Trends in cancer, 2016 - cell.com
Intratumoral hypoxia (reduced O 2 availability) is a common finding in human cancer and
leads to increased activity of hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs), which regulate the expression …