CAR T-cell therapy: a new era in cancer immunotherapy

AN Miliotou, LC Papadopoulou - Current pharmaceutical …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Over the years, a
number of conventional cytotoxic approaches for neoplastic diseases has been developed …

[HTML][HTML] The promising immune checkpoint LAG-3: from tumor microenvironment to cancer immunotherapy

L Long, X Zhang, F Chen, Q Pan… - Genes & …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer immunotherapy and tumor microenvironment have been at the forefront of research
over the past decades. Targeting immune checkpoints especially programmed death 1 (PD …

Predictive correlates of response to the anti-PD-L1 antibody MPDL3280A in cancer patients

RS Herbst, JC Soria, M Kowanetz, GD Fine, O Hamid… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The development of human cancer is a multistep process characterized by the accumulation
of genetic and epigenetic alterations that drive or reflect tumour progression. These changes …

Interleukin-2 and regulatory T cells in rheumatic diseases

AGA Kolios, GC Tsokos, D Klatzmann - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2021 - nature.com
Failure of regulatory T (Treg) cells to properly control immune responses leads invariably to
autoimmunity and organ damage. Decreased numbers or impaired function of Treg cells …

Mechanisms of immune evasion in bladder cancer

PL Crispen, S Kusmartsev - Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy, 2020 - Springer
With the introduction of multiple new agents, the role of immunotherapy is rapidly expanding
across all malignancies. Bladder cancer is known to be immunogenic and is responsive to …

Inhibitory receptors and pathways of lymphocytes: the role of PD-1 in Treg development and their involvement in autoimmunity onset and cancer progression

E Gianchecchi, A Fierabracci - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Regulatory T (Treg) cells represent a subpopulation of suppressor CD4+ T cells critically
involved in the establishment of peripheral tolerance through the inhibition of effector T (Teff) …

Multifactorial T-cell hypofunction that is reversible can limit the efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor–transduced human T cells in solid tumors

EK Moon, LC Wang, DV Dolfi, CB Wilson… - Clinical cancer …, 2014 - AACR
Purpose: Immunotherapy using vaccines or adoptively transferred tumor-infiltrating
lymphocytes (TIL) is limited by T-cell functional inactivation within the solid tumor …

Regulatory T cells in nonlymphoid tissues

D Burzyn, C Benoist, D Mathis - Nature immunology, 2013 - nature.com
Abstract Both Foxp3+ CD4+ regulatory T cells (Treg cells) and local immune responses in
nonlymphoid tissues have long been recognized as important elements of a well …

Tumor infiltrating PD1-positive lymphocytes and the expression of PD-L1 predict poor prognosis of soft tissue sarcomas

JR Kim, YJ Moon, KS Kwon, JS Bae, S Wagle, KM Kim… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Recently, the possibility of PD1 pathway-targeted therapy has been extensively studied in
various human malignant tumors. However, no previous study has investigated their …

[HTML][HTML] A2aR antagonists: Next generation checkpoint blockade for cancer immunotherapy

RD Leone, YC Lo, JD Powell - Computational and structural biotechnology …, 2015 - Elsevier
The last several years have witnessed exciting progress in the development of
immunotherapy for the treatment of cancer. This has been due in great part to the …