Toll-like receptors and cancer

S Rakoff-Nahoum, R Medzhitov - Nature reviews cancer, 2009 - nature.com
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a family of pattern recognition receptors that are best-known
for their role in host defence from infection. Emerging evidence also suggests that TLRs …

Dendritic cell vaccination of glioblastoma: road to success or dead end

A Datsi, RV Sorg - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastomas (GBM) are the most frequent and aggressive malignant primary brain tumor
and remains a therapeutic challenge: even after multimodal therapy, median survival of …

Immune exosomes loading self-assembled nanomicelles traverse the blood–brain barrier for chemo-immunotherapy against glioblastoma

J Cui, X Wang, J Li, A Zhu, Y Du, W Zeng, Y Guo, L Di… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Effective drug delivery and prevention of postoperative recurrence are significant challenges
for current glioblastoma (GBM) treatment. Poor drug delivery is mainly due to the presence …

Toll-like receptor stimulation in cancer: a pro-and anti-tumor double-edged sword

M Dajon, K Iribarren, I Cremer - Immunobiology, 2017 - Elsevier
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a family of transmembrane receptors that recognize various
pathogen-and damage-associated molecular pattern molecules playing an important role in …

Toll-like receptors and toll-like receptor-targeted immunotherapy against glioma

Y Xun, H Yang, B Kaminska, H You - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2021 - Springer
Glioma represents a fast proliferating and highly invasive brain tumor which is resistant to
current therapies and invariably recurs. Despite some advancements in anti-glioma …

In situ targeting nanoparticles-hydrogel hybrid system for combined chemo-immunotherapy of glioma

X Wang, L Ye, W He, C Teng, S Sun, H Lu, S Li… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
It is well known that glioma is currently the most malignant brain tumor. Because of the
existence of blood-brain barrier (BBB) and tumor cell heterogeneity, systemic chemotherapy …

The controversial role of microglia in malignant gliomas

J Wei, K Gabrusiewicz… - Journal of Immunology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Malignant gliomas contain stroma and a variety of immune cells including abundant
activated microglia/macrophages. Mounting evidence indicates that the glioma …

Glial and myeloid heterogeneity in the brain tumour microenvironment

BM Andersen, C Faust Akl, MA Wheeler… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Brain cancers carry bleak prognoses, with therapeutic advances helping only a minority of
patients over the past decade. The brain tumour microenvironment (TME) is highly …

Toll-like receptors in inflammation, infection and cancer

K Chen, J Huang, W Gong, P Iribarren… - International …, 2007 - Elsevier
Members of the Toll-like receptor (TLR) family play key roles in both innate and adaptive
immune responses. TLR proteins enable host to recognize a large number of pathogen …

Harnessing innate immune pathways for therapeutic advancement in cancer

A Hu, L Sun, H Lin, Y Liao, H Yang… - Signal Transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
The innate immune pathway is receiving increasing attention in cancer therapy. This
pathway is ubiquitous across various cell types, not only in innate immune cells but also in …