Tailoring nanomaterials for targeting tumor‐associated macrophages

M Ovais, M Guo, C Chen - Advanced materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in the field of nanotechnology together with an increase understanding of tumor
immunology have paved the way for the development of more personalized cancer immuno …

Reprogramming tumor-associated macrophages as a unique approach to target tumor immunotherapy

SU Khan, MU Khan, M Azhar Ud Din, IM Khan… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In the last ten years, it has become increasingly clear that tumor-infiltrating myeloid cells
drive not just carcinogenesis via cancer-related inflammatory processes, but also tumor …

CSF1/CSF1R signaling inhibitor pexidartinib (PLX3397) reprograms tumor-associated macrophages and stimulates T-cell infiltration in the sarcoma microenvironment

T Fujiwara, MA Yakoub, A Chandler, AB Christ… - Molecular cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Abstract Colony-stimulating factor 1 (CSF1) is a primary regulator of the survival,
proliferation, and differentiation of monocyte/macrophage that sustains the protumorigenic …

Stimuli-responsive polymer-doxorubicin conjugate: Antitumor mechanism and potential as nano-prodrug

K Chen, H Cai, H Zhang, H Zhu, Z Gu, Q Gong, K Luo - Acta biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Polymer-drug conjugates has significantly improved the anti-tumor efficacy of
chemotherapeutic drugs and alleviated their side effects. N-(1, 3-dihydroxypropan-2-yl) …

Nanocarriers used in drug delivery to enhance immune system in cancer therapy

GCNB Lôbo, KLR Paiva, ALG Silva, MM Simões… - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cancer, a group of diseases responsible for the second largest cause of global death, is
considered one of the main public health problems today. Despite the advances, there are …

Drug delivery to macrophages: A review of nano-therapeutics targeted approach for inflammatory disorders and cancer

M Mukhtar, H Ali, N Ahmed, R Munir… - Expert opinion on …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Macrophages are involved in the normal defense of the body; however, the
varying phenotypes of macrophages and imbalance in their ratio lead to the impairment of …

Nanomedicine enables spatiotemporally regulating macrophage-based cancer immunotherapy

YD Zhao, M Muhetaerjiang, HW An, X Fang, Y Zhao… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Cancer immunotherapy, leveraging the host's coordinated immune system to fight against
tumor has been clinically validated. However, the modest response owing to the multiple …

[HTML][HTML] Macrophages: Key Players in the Battle against Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

I Padzińska-Pruszyńska, P Kucharzewska… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a challenging subtype of breast cancer
characterized by the absence of estrogen and progesterone receptors and HER2 …

Emerging nanoparticle strategies for modulating tumor-associated macrophage polarization

L Shi, H Gu - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Immunotherapy has made great progress in recent years, yet the efficacy of solid tumors
remains far less than expected. One of the main hurdles is to overcome the immune …

Biorecognition: A key to drug-free macromolecular therapeutics

J Yang, L Li, J Kopeček - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
This review highlights a new paradigm in macromolecular nanomedicine–drug-free
macromolecular therapeutics (DFMT). The effectiveness of the new system is based on …