Advances in local therapy for glioblastoma—taking the fight to the tumour

TS van Solinge, L Nieland, EA Chiocca… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite advances in neurosurgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, glioblastoma remains
one of the most treatment-resistant CNS malignancies, and the tumour inevitably recurs. The …

Mesenchymal stem cell immunomodulation: mechanisms and therapeutic potential

N Song, M Scholtemeijer, K Shah - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) are multipotent cells that are emerging as the most
promising means of allogeneic cell therapy. MSCs have inherent immunomodulatory …

Macroscale biomaterials strategies for local immunomodulation

MO Dellacherie, BR Seo, DJ Mooney - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
The immune system plays key roles in tissue homeostatic and disease processes, and
manipulation of innate and adaptive immune responses is of great promise for a wide array …

Bifunctional cancer cell–based vaccine concomitantly drives direct tumor killing and antitumor immunity

KS Chen, C Reinshagen, TA Van Schaik… - Science Translational …, 2023 - science.org
The administration of inactivated tumor cells is known to induce a potent antitumor immune
response; however, the efficacy of such an approach is limited by its inability to kill tumor …

Immunomodulatory mechanisms and therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stem cells

G Yang, X Fan, Y Liu, P Jie, M Mazhar, Y Liu… - Stem Cell Reviews and …, 2023 - Springer
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are regarded as highly promising cells for allogeneic cell
therapy, owing to their multipotent nature and ability to display potent and varied functions in …

Glioma-initiating cells at tumor edge gain signals from tumor core cells to promote their malignancy

S Bastola, MS Pavlyukov, D Yamashita… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Intratumor spatial heterogeneity facilitates therapeutic resistance in glioblastoma (GBM).
Nonetheless, understanding of GBM heterogeneity is largely limited to the surgically …

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 …

Rationally designed drug delivery systems for the local treatment of resected glioblastoma

C Bastiancich, A Malfanti, V Préat, R Rahman - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a particularly aggressive brain cancer associated with high
recurrence and poor prognosis. The standard of care, surgical resection followed by …

The potential of the gut microbiome to reshape the cancer therapy paradigm: A review

L Liu, K Shah - JAMA oncology, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The gut microbiome, home to the vast kingdom of diverse commensal bacteria
and other microorganisms residing within the gut, was once thought to only have roles …

Optogenetic-controlled immunotherapeutic designer cells for post-surgical cancer immunotherapy

Y Yu, X Wu, M Wang, W Liu, L Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Surgical resection is the main treatment option for most solid tumors, yet cancer recurrence
after surgical resection remains a significant challenge in cancer therapy. Recent advances …