Research progress of therapeutic effects and drug resistance of immunotherapy based on PD-1/PD-L1 blockade

K Pang, ZD Shi, LY Wei, Y Dong, YY Ma, W Wang… - Drug Resistance …, 2023 - Elsevier
The binding of programmed death-1 (PD-1) on the surface of T cells and PD-1 ligand 1 (PD-
L1) on tumor cells can prevent the immune-killing effect of T cells on tumor cells and …

Interferon-gamma at the crossroads of tumor immune surveillance or evasion

F Castro, AP Cardoso, RM Gonçalves, K Serre… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) is a pleiotropic molecule with associated antiproliferative, pro-
apoptotic and antitumor mechanisms. This effector cytokine, often considered as a major …

JAK/STAT pathway: Extracellular signals, diseases, immunity, and therapeutic regimens

Q Hu, Q Bian, D Rong, L Wang, J Song… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Janus kinase/signal transduction and transcription activation (JAK/STAT) pathways were
originally thought to be intracellular signaling pathways that mediate cytokine signals in …

Small-molecule MYC inhibitors suppress tumor growth and enhance immunotherapy

H Han, AD Jain, MI Truica, J Izquierdo-Ferrer, JF Anker… - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
Small molecules that directly target MYC and are also well tolerated in vivo will provide
invaluable chemical probes and potential anti-cancer therapeutic agents. We developed a …

Interferon gamma in cancer immunotherapy

L Ni, J Lu - Cancer medicine, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Immune system can recognize self vs transformed self. That is why cancer immunotherapy
achieves notable benefits in a wide variety of cancers. Recently, several papers reported …

Role of the tumor microenvironment in PD-L1/PD-1-mediated tumor immune escape

X Jiang, J Wang, X Deng, F Xiong, J Ge, B Xiang, X Wu… - Molecular cancer, 2019 - Springer
Tumor immune escape is an important strategy of tumor survival. There are many
mechanisms of tumor immune escape, including immunosuppression, which has become a …

Tumor associated macrophages: origin, recruitment, phenotypic diversity, and targeting

T Hourani, JA Holden, W Li, JC Lenzo… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is known to have a strong influence on tumorigenesis,
with various components being involved in tumor suppression and tumor growth. A …

Tumor microenvironment in ovarian cancer: function and therapeutic strategy

Y Yang, Y Yang, J Yang, X Zhao, X Wei - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Ovarian cancer is one of the leading causes of death in patients with gynecological
malignancy. Despite optimal cytoreductive surgery and platinum-based chemotherapy …

Reduced m6A modification predicts malignant phenotypes and augmented Wnt/PI3K‐Akt signaling in gastric cancer

C Zhang, M Zhang, S Ge, W Huang, X Lin… - Cancer …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background As the most abundant epigenetic modification on mRNAs and long non‐coding
RNAs, N6‐methyladenosine (m6A) modification extensively exists in mammalian cells …

Current status of immune checkpoint inhibitors for gastric cancer

K Kono, S Nakajima, K Mimura - Gastric cancer, 2020 - Springer
Recent breakthrough results from immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have paved the way to
a new era of cancer immunotherapy. In particular, inhibition of programmed death-1 (PD …