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 …

Advances in anti-tumor treatments targeting the CD47/SIRPα axis

W Zhang, Q Huang, W Xiao, Y Zhao, J Pi, H Xu… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
CD47 is an immunoglobulin that is overexpressed on the surface of many types of cancer
cells. CD47 forms a signaling complex with signal-regulatory protein α (SIRPα), enabling the …

Myeloid immunosuppression and immune checkpoints in the tumor microenvironment

K Nakamura, MJ Smyth - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Tumor-promoting inflammation and the avoidance of immune destruction are hallmarks of
cancer. While innate immune cells, such as neutrophils, monocytes, and macrophages, are …

Function of macrophages in disease: current understanding on molecular mechanisms

C Zhang, M Yang, AC Ericsson - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Tissue-resident macrophages (TRMs) are heterogeneous populations originating either
from monocytes or embryonic progenitors, and distribute in lymphoid and non-lymphoid …

NK cell-based immune checkpoint inhibition

M Khan, S Arooj, H Wang - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Immunotherapy, with an increasing number of therapeutic dimensions, is becoming an
important mode of treatment for cancer patients. The inhibition of immune checkpoints …

SIRPα–CD47 immune checkpoint blockade in anticancer therapy

A Veillette, J Chen - Trends in immunology, 2018 - cell.com
Inhibitory immune checkpoint blockade has been one of the most significant advances in
anticancer therapy of the past decade. Research so far has largely focused on improving …

CD47-SIRPα axis blockade in NASH promotes necroptotic hepatocyte clearance by liver macrophages and decreases hepatic fibrosis

H Shi, X Wang, F Li, BD Gerlach… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Necroptosis contributes to hepatocyte death in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), but the
fate and roles of necroptotic hepatocytes (necHCs) in NASH remain unknown. We show …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer immunotherapy targeting the CD47/SIRPα axis

K Weiskopf - European journal of cancer, 2017 - Elsevier
The success of cancer immunotherapy has generated tremendous interest in identifying new
immunotherapeutic targets. To date, the majority of therapies have focussed on stimulating …

[HTML][HTML] CD47/SIRPα pathway mediates cancer immune escape and immunotherapy

X Jia, B Yan, X Tian, Q Liu, J Jin, J Shi… - International journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The adaptive immune checkpoints such as PD-1 (programmed death-1)/PD-L1
(programmed death-ligand 1) play an important role in cancer immunotherapy, whereas …

Adverse events following cancer immunotherapy: obstacles and opportunities

KE Pauken, M Dougan, NR Rose, AH Lichtman… - Trends in …, 2019 - cell.com
Oncology has recently undergone a revolutionary change with widespread adoption of
immunotherapy for many cancers. Immunotherapy using monoclonal antibodies against …