Define cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in the tumor microenvironment: new opportunities in cancer immunotherapy and advances in clinical trials

H Zhang, X Yue, Z Chen, C Liu, W Wu, N Zhang, Z Liu… - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Despite centuries since the discovery and study of cancer, cancer is still a lethal and
intractable health issue worldwide. Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) have gained much …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted nanomedicines remodeling immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment for enhanced cancer immunotherapy

Y Xu, J Xiong, X Sun, H Gao - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer immunotherapy has significantly flourished and revolutionized the limited
conventional tumor therapies, on account of its good safety and long-term memory ability …

Cancer-associated fibroblasts: overview, progress, challenges, and directions

Q Ping, R Yan, X Cheng, W Wang, Y Zhong… - Cancer gene …, 2021 - nature.com
Tumors are one of the main causes of death in humans. The development of safe and
effective methods for early diagnosis and treatment of tumors is a difficult problem that needs …

Nanotechnology for boosting cancer immunotherapy and remodeling tumor microenvironment: the horizons in cancer treatment

S Gao, X Yang, J Xu, N Qiu, G Zhai - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Immunotherapy that harnesses the human immune system to fight cancer has received
widespread attention and become a mainstream strategy for cancer treatment. Cancer …

Current advance of nanotechnology in diagnosis and treatment for malignant tumors

B Wang, S Hu, Y Teng, J Chen, H Wang, Y Xu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer remains a significant risk to human health. Nanomedicine is a new multidisciplinary
field that is garnering a lot of interest and investigation. Nanomedicine shows great potential …

Self-assembled peptide and protein nanostructures for anti-cancer therapy: Targeted delivery, stimuli-responsive devices and immunotherapy

M Delfi, R Sartorius, M Ashrafizadeh, E Sharifi, Y Zhang… - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Self-assembled peptides and proteins possess tremendous potential as targeted drug
delivery systems and key applications of these well-defined nanostructures reside in anti …

Nanotechnological approaches in prostate cancer therapy: integration of engineering and biology

M Ashrafizadeh, S Aghamiri, SC Tan, A Zarrabi… - Nano Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanocarriers have received special attention in biomedicine for the treatment of various
diseases, especially cancer, as one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Nanocarriers …

Biomembrane-based nanostructures for cancer targeting and therapy: from synthetic liposomes to natural biomembranes and membrane-vesicles

J Wang, M Zhu, G Nie - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The translational success of liposomes in chemotherapeutics has already demonstrated the
great potential of biomembrane-based nanostructure in effective drug delivery. Meanwhile …

A Self-Driven Bioreactor Based on Bacterium–Metal–Organic Framework Biohybrids for Boosting Chemotherapy via Cyclic Lactate Catabolism

JW Wang, QW Chen, GF Luo, ZY Han, WF Song… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The excessive lactate in the tumor microenvironment always leads to poor therapeutic
outcomes of chemotherapy. In this study, a self-driven bioreactor (defined as SO@ MDH …

Fibroblast activation protein-α as a target in the bench-to-bedside diagnosis and treatment of tumors: a narrative review

L Xin, J Gao, Z Zheng, Y Chen, S Lv, Z Zhao… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Fibroblast activation protein-α (FAP) is a type II integral serine protease that is specifically
expressed by activated fibroblasts. Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in the tumor stroma …