Engineering strategies to enhance oncolytic viruses in cancer immunotherapy

Y Tian, D Xie, L Yang - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are emerging as potentially useful platforms in treatment methods for
patients with tumors. They preferentially target and kill tumor cells, leaving healthy cells …

Oncolytic viruses for cancer therapy: barriers and recent advances

M Zheng, J Huang, A Tong, H Yang - Molecular Therapy-Oncolytics, 2019 - cell.com
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are powerful new therapeutic agents in cancer therapy. With the first
OV (talimogene laherparepvec [T-vec]) obtaining US Food and Drug Administration …

Advances in immunotherapy for glioblastoma multiforme

AB Mahmoud, R Ajina, S Aref, M Darwish… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive malignant brain tumor
of the central nervous system and has a very poor prognosis. The current standard of care …

Past, present and future of oncolytic reovirus

L Müller, R Berkeley, T Barr, E Ilett, F Errington-Mais - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Within this review article the authors provide an unbiased review of the
oncolytic virus, reovirus, clinically formulated as pelareorep. In particular, the authors …

Application of oncolytic virus in tumor therapy

Z Huang, H Guo, L Lin, S Li, Y Yang… - Journal of Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) can selectively kill tumor cells without affecting normal cells, as well
as activate the innate and adaptive immune systems in patients. Thus, they have been …

Cytokines in oncolytic virotherapy

JG Pol, ST Workenhe, P Konda, S Gujar… - Cytokine & Growth Factor …, 2020 - Elsevier
Tumors represent a hostile environment for the effector cells of cancer immunosurveillance.
Immunosuppressive receptors and soluble or membrane-bound ligands are abundantly …

Immunotherapeutic potential of TGF-β inhibition and oncolytic viruses

C Groeneveldt, T van Hall, SH van der Burg… - Trends in …, 2020 - cell.com
In cancer immunotherapy, a patient's own immune system is harnessed against cancer.
Immune checkpoint inhibitors release the brakes on tumor-reactive T cells and, therefore …

[HTML][HTML] Preexisting immunity: Barrier or bridge to effective oncolytic virus therapy?

C Groeneveldt, J van den Ende… - Cytokine & Growth Factor …, 2023 - Elsevier
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) represent a highly promising treatment strategy for a wide range of
cancers, by mediating both the direct killing of tumor cells as well as mobilization of …

Giving oncolytic viruses a free ride: carrier cells for oncolytic virotherapy

A Reale, A Calistri, J Altomonte - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are an emerging class of therapeutics which combine multiple
mechanisms of action, including direct cancer cell-killing, immunotherapy and gene therapy …

Oncolytic viral therapy for malignant glioma and their application in clinical practice

ML Shoaf, A Desjardins - Neurotherapeutics, 2022 - Springer
Glioblastoma is the most common primary malignant brain tumor in adults and outcomes
remain poor despite the current standard of care multimodal therapy. Oncolytic virotherapy …