Interleukin-21: a double-edged sword with therapeutic potential

R Spolski, WJ Leonard - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
Interleukin-21 is a cytokine with broad pleiotropic actions that affect the differentiation and
function of lymphoid and myeloid cells. Since its discovery in 2000, a tremendous amount …

IL‐21: a pleiotropic cytokine with potential applications in oncology

M Croce, V Rigo, S Ferrini - Journal of immunology research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Interleukin‐(IL‐) 21 is a pleiotropic cytokine that regulates the activity of both innate and
specific immunity. Indeed, it costimulates T and natural killer (NK) cell proliferation and …

Enhancement of CD 154/IL 4 proliferation by the T follicular helper (T fh) cytokine, IL 21 and increased numbers of circulating cells resembling T fh cells in chronic …

MJ Ahearne, S Willimott, L Piñon… - British journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) cells encounter T‐cells and proliferate in response to
T‐cell signals in the lymph node microenvironment. In this report we determined interleukin …

Phosphoserine aminotransferase 1 is associated to poor outcome on tamoxifen therapy in recurrent breast cancer

T De Marchi, MA Timmermans, AM Sieuwerts… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
In a previous study, we detected a significant association between phosphoserine
aminotransferase 1 (PSAT1) hyper-methylation and mRNA levels to outcome to tamoxifen …

Elevated serum levels of IL-2R, IL-1RA, and CXCL9 are associated with a poor prognosis in follicular lymphoma

MA Mir, MJ Maurer, SC Ziesmer… - Blood, The Journal …, 2015 - ashpublications.org
Serum cytokines and chemokines may reflect tumor biology and host response in follicular
lymphoma (FL). To determine whether the addition of these biological factors may further …

Oxymatrine exhibits anti-tumor activity in gastric cancer through inhibition of IL-21R-mediated JAK2/STAT3 pathway

Y Huang, J Zhang, G Wang, X Chen… - International journal …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Oxymatrine (OMT) as a type of alkaloids collected from Sophora flavescens Ait exerts some
biological functions including anticancer properties. Here, we investigated the therapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] IL-21R functions as an oncogenic factor and is regulated by the lncRNA MALAT1/miR-125a-3p axis in gastric cancer

L Yan, J Zhang, D Guo, J Ma… - … Journal of Oncology, 2019 - spandidos-publications.com
Abstract Interleukin-21 receptor (IL-21R) is involved in the immunological regulation of
immune cells and tumor progression in multiple malignancies. However, the potential …

A novel role for ezrin in breast cancer angio/lymphangiogenesis

A Ghaffari, V Hoskin, A Szeto, M Hum, N Liaghati… - Breast Cancer …, 2014 - Springer
Introduction Recent evidence suggests that tumour lymphangiogenesis promotes lymph
node metastasis, a major prognostic factor for survival of breast cancer patients. However …

Patient-derived follicular lymphoma spheroids recapitulate lymph node signaling and immune profile uncovering galectin-9 as a novel immunotherapeutic target

C Dobaño-López, JG Valero, F Araujo-Ayala… - Blood Cancer …, 2024 - nature.com
Follicular lymphoma (FL), the most common indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma, constitutes a
paradigm of immune tumor microenvironment (TME) contribution to disease onset …

Interleukin 21 and its receptor play a role in proliferation, migration and invasion of breast cancer cells

LN Wang, YX Cui, F Ruge… - Cancer genomics & …, 2015 - cgp.iiarjournals.org
Interleukin 21 (IL21) is a cytokine produced predominantly by cluster of differentiation 4
(CD4+) T-cells and natural killer T-cells. There exists evidence that IL21 is implicated in …