Managing the immune microenvironment of osteosarcoma: the outlook for osteosarcoma treatment

H Tian, J Cao, B Li, EC Nice, H Mao, Y Zhang… - Bone Research, 2023 - nature.com
Osteosarcoma, with poor survival after metastasis, is considered the most common primary
bone cancer in adolescents. Notwithstanding the efforts of researchers, its five-year survival …

Oncolytic virotherapy evolved into the fourth generation as tumor immunotherapy

X Wang, Y Shen, X Wan, X Hu, WQ Cai, Z Wu… - Journal of Translational …, 2023 - Springer
Background Oncolytic virotherapy (OVT) is a promising anti-tumor modality that utilizes
oncolytic viruses (OVs) to preferentially attack cancers rather than normal tissues. With the …

Oncolytic Viruses and Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: The “Hot” New Power Couple

C Lovatt, AL Parker - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Oncolytic viruses (OV) are engineered viruses designed to replicate
selectively within tumour cells. They hold great promise as novel cancer therapeutics, but …

Bifidobacterium affects antitumor efficacy of oncolytic adenovirus in a mouse model of melanoma

L Tripodi, S Feola, I Granata, T Whalley, M Passariello… - IScience, 2023 - cell.com
Gut microbiota plays a key role in modulating responses to cancer immunotherapy in
melanoma patients. Oncolytic viruses (OVs) represent emerging tools in cancer therapy …

Systems biology approaches for the improvement of oncolytic virus-based immunotherapies

L Tripodi, E Sasso, S Feola, L Coluccino, M Vitale… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This review provides a roadmap to develop safe and effective OV-based
future therapeutics by using several novel synthetic and system biology strategies …

A dual-functional oncolytic adenovirus ZD55-aPD-L1 scFv armed with PD-L1 inhibitor potentiates its antitumor activity

S Mei, S Peng, EG Vong, J Zhan - International Immunopharmacology, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Clinical data indicate that a substantial portion of cancer patients, though
eligible for immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy, cannot fully benefit from ICI …

Personalizing oncolytic virotherapy

F Hamdan, M Fusciello, V Cerullo - Human Gene Therapy, 2023 - liebertpub.com
The use of oncolytic viruses has become an attractive tool in the clinics for the treatment of
various tumor types. Such viruses are genetically modified to conditionally replicate in …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of oncolytic adenoviral therapy on the therapeutic efficacy of PD-1/PD-L1 blockade

S Najafi, J Majidpoor, K Mortezaee - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2023 - Elsevier
Immunotherapy has revolutionized treatment of cancer during the last decades. Oncolytic
virotherapy has also emerged as a strategy to fight against cancer cells both via lysis of …

Locked and loaded: engineering and arming oncolytic adenoviruses to enhance anti-tumor immune responses

SC Lu, MA Barry - Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction Oncolytic adenoviruses (Ads) are promising therapeutics to
enhance anti-tumor immune responses and modulate the immune-suppressive tumor …

[HTML][HTML] Alternative Strategies for Delivering Immunotherapeutics Targeting the PD-1/PD-L1 Immune Checkpoint in Cancer

R Hoshi, KA Gorospe, HI Labouta, T Azad, WL Lee… - Pharmaceutics, 2024 - mdpi.com
The programmed death-1/programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-1/PD-L1) immune checkpoint
constitutes an inhibitory pathway best known for its regulation of cluster of differentiation 8 …