Nanoengineered immune niches for reprogramming the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment and enhancing cancer immunotherapy

H Phuengkham, L Ren, IW Shin, YT Lim - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer immunotherapies that harness the body's immune system to combat tumors have
received extensive attention and become mainstream strategies for treating cancer. Despite …

Interleukin 12: still a promising candidate for tumor immunotherapy?

W Lasek, R Zagożdżon, M Jakobisiak - Cancer Immunology …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Interleukin 12 (IL-12) seemed to represent the ideal candidate for tumor
immunotherapy, due to its ability to activate both innate (NK cells) and adaptive (cytotoxic T …

Immunological aspects of cancer chemotherapy

L Zitvogel, L Apetoh, F Ghiringhelli… - Nature reviews …, 2008 - nature.com
Accumulating evidence indicates that the innate and adaptive immune systems make a
crucial contribution to the antitumour effects of conventional chemotherapy-based and …

Effective photoimmunotherapy of murine colon carcinoma induced by the combination of photodynamic therapy and dendritic cells

A Jalili, M Makowski, T Switaj, D Nowis… - Clinical Cancer …, 2004 - AACR
Purpose: The unique mechanism of tumor destruction by photodynamic therapy (PDT),
resulting from apoptotic and necrotic killing of tumor cells accompanied by local …

Impact of IL-12 in Cancer

X Lu - Current cancer drug targets, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Interleukin 12 (IL-12) is a pleiotropic cytokine that plays an essential role in Th1-
type immune response against cancer, a condition where cells in a particular part of the …

Combinatorial treatments including vaccines, chemotherapy and monoclonal antibodies for cancer therapy

CN Baxevanis, SA Perez, M Papamichail - Cancer immunology …, 2009 - Springer
Accumulating evidence suggests that despite the potency of cytotoxic anticancer agents,
and the great specificity that can be achieved with immunotherapy, neither of these two …

Molecular pathways: at the crossroads of cancer epigenetics and immunotherapy

M Maio, A Covre, E Fratta, AM Di Giacomo… - Clinical Cancer …, 2015 - AACR
Epigenetic regulation allows heritably modulating gene expression profiles without
modifying the primary sequence of gDNA. Under physiologic conditions, epigenetic patterns …

T-cell mediated anti-tumor immunity after photodynamic therapy: why does it not always work and how can we improve it?

F Anzengruber, P Avci, LF De Freitas… - Photochemical & …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) uses the combination of non-toxic photosensitizers and
harmless light to generate reactive oxygen species that destroy tumors by a combination of …

Epigenetics in cancer: a hematological perspective

M Stahl, N Kohrman, SD Gore, TK Kim, AM Zeidan… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
For several decades, we have known that epigenetic regulation is disrupted in cancer.
Recently, an increasing body of data suggests epigenetics might be an intersection of …

The influence of photodynamic therapy on the immune response

D Nowis, T Stokłosa, M Legat, T Issat… - Photodiagnosis and …, 2005 - Elsevier
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a clinically approved therapeutic modality used for the
management of several types of tumors as well as non-malignant diseases. Most of the …