Targeting cancer metabolic pathways for improving chemotherapy and immunotherapy

Z Luo, KM Eichinger, A Zhang, S Li - Cancer letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent discoveries in cancer metabolism have revealed promising metabolic targets to
modulate cancer progression, drug response, and anti-cancer immunity. Combination …

Metformin and cancer, an ambiguanidous relationship

SJ Skuli, S Alomari, H Gaitsch, A Bakayoko, N Skuli… - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
The deregulation of energetic and cellular metabolism is a signature of cancer cells. Thus,
drugs targeting cancer cell metabolism may have promising therapeutic potential. Previous …

[HTML][HTML] Metformin improves cancer immunotherapy by directly rescuing tumor-infiltrating CD8 T lymphocytes from hypoxia-induced immunosuppression

V Finisguerra, T Dvorakova, M Formenti… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Despite their revolutionary success in cancer treatment over the last decades,
immunotherapies encounter limitations in certain tumor types and patients. The efficacy of …

Type 2 diabetes mellitus and efficacy outcomes from immune checkpoint blockade in patients with cancer

A Cortellini, A D'Alessio, S Cleary, S Buti… - Clinical Cancer …, 2023 - AACR
Purpose: No evidence exists as to whether type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) impairs clinical
outcome from immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) in patients with solid tumors. Experimental …

Metformin and its immune-mediated effects in various diseases

I Nojima, J Wada - International journal of molecular sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Metformin has been a long-standing prescribed drug for treatment of type 2 diabetes (T2D)
and its beneficial effects on virus infection, autoimmune diseases, aging and cancers are …

The impact of metformin on tumor-infiltrated immune cells: preclinical and clinical studies

M Abdelmoneim, MA Aboalela, Y Naoe… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The tumor microenvironment (TME) plays a pivotal role in the fate of cancer cells, and tumor-
infiltrating immune cells have emerged as key players in shaping this complex milieu …

Targeting anticancer immunity in oral cancer: Drugs, products, and nanoparticles

L Qin, J Wu - Environmental Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Oral cavity carcinomas are the most frequent malignancies among head and neck
malignancies. Oral tumors include not only oral cancer cells with different potency and …

The mouse oral carcinoma (MOC) model: a 10-year retrospective on model development and head and neck cancer investigations

M Kono, S Saito, AM Egloff, CT Allen, R Uppaluri - Oral oncology, 2022 - Elsevier
Preclinical models of cancer have long been paramount to understanding tumor
development and advancing the treatment of cancer. Creating preclinical models that mimic …

Immunogenic Extracellular Vesicles Derived from Endoplasmic Reticulum-Stressed Tumor Cells: Implications as the Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine

KH Han, CH Kim, SH Kim, CH Lee, M Park, VD Bui… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Tumor-derived extracellular vesicles (TDEs) have potential for therapeutic cancer vaccine
applications since they innately possess tumor-associated antigens, mediate antigen …

Metformin as a booster of cancer immunotherapy

J Panaampon, Y Zhou, C Saengboonmee - International …, 2023 - Elsevier
Metformin, a biguanide antidiabetic, has been studied for its repurposing effects in oncology.
Although a modest effect was observed in a single-agent regimen, metformin can synergize …