Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM): An overview of current therapies and mechanisms of resistance

W Wu, JL Klockow, M Zhang, F Lafortune… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a WHO grade IV glioma and the most common malignant,
primary brain tumor with a 5-year survival of 7.2%. Its highly infiltrative nature, genetic …

Tumor-associated microglia and macrophages in the glioblastoma microenvironment and their implications for therapy

RS Andersen, A Anand, DSL Harwood, BW Kristensen - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Patients with glioblastoma—the most frequent and malignant primary brain
tumor—have a poor prognosis with a median survival of less than 15 months. Despite …

Radiotherapy in combination with CD47 blockade elicits a macrophage-mediated abscopal effect

Y Nishiga, AP Drainas, M Baron, D Bhattacharya… - Nature Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Radiation therapy is a mainstay of cancer treatment but does not always lead to complete
tumor regression. Here we combine radiotherapy with blockade of the 'don't-eat-me'cell …

Variants of the adeno-associated virus serotype 9 with enhanced penetration of the blood–brain barrier in rodents and primates

Y Yao, J Wang, Y Liu, Y Qu, K Wang, Y Zhang… - Nature biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of gene therapies for the treatment of diseases of the central nervous
system has been hindered by the limited availability of adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) that …

Tumor-associated macrophage-related strategies for glioma immunotherapy

F Tang, Y Wang, Y Zeng, A Xiao, A Tong… - NPJ precision oncology, 2023 - nature.com
High-grade glioma is one of the deadliest primary tumors of the central nervous system.
Despite the many novel immunotherapies currently in development, it has been difficult to …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Deep immune profiling reveals targetable mechanisms of immune evasion in immune checkpoint inhibitor-refractory glioblastoma

EF Simonds, ED Lu, O Badillo, S Karimi… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Glioblastoma (GBM) is refractory to immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy.
We sought to determine to what extent this immune evasion is due to intrinsic properties of …

[HTML][HTML] Genetically engineered macrophages persist in solid tumors and locally deliver therapeutic proteins to activate immune responses

KJ Brempelis, CM Cowan, SA Kreuser… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Though currently approved immunotherapies, including chimeric antigen
receptor T cells and checkpoint blockade antibodies, have been successfully used to treat …

Glioblastoma multiforme: novel therapeutic targets

M Muir, S Gopakumar, J Traylor, S Lee… - Expert Opinion on …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction The increasingly detailed genetic characterization of glioblastoma (GBM) has
failed to translate into meaningful breakthroughs in treatment. This is likely to be attributed to …

Radiotherapy-mediated immunomodulation and anti-tumor abscopal effect combining immune checkpoint blockade

X Zhao, C Shao - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Combination of radiotherapy and immunotherapy to antagonize tumors is
one of hotspot issues currently. Immunotherapy can effectively alleviate the non-lasting …