Responsive biomaterials: optimizing control of cancer immunotherapy

L Xue, AS Thatte, D Mai, RM Haley, N Gong… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has emerged as an eminent and effective modality in the treatment of
cancer. However, current cancer immunotherapies lack spatial and temporal control …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering interferons and interleukins for cancer immunotherapy

PG Holder, SA Lim, CS Huang, P Sharma… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cytokines are a class of potent immunoregulatory proteins that are secreted in response to
various stimuli and act locally to regulate many aspects of human physiology and disease …

Polymer micropatches as natural killer cell engagers for tumor therapy

S Prakash, N Kumbhojkar, A Lu, N Kapate, VC Suja… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Natural killer (NK) cell therapies have emerged as a potential therapeutic approach to
various cancers. Their efficacy, however, is limited by their low persistence and anergy …

Cytokine conjugation to enhance T cell therapy

Y Liu, K Adu-Berchie, JM Brockman… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Adoptive T cell transfer (ACT) therapies suffer from a number of limitations (eg, poor control
of solid tumors), and while combining ACT with cytokine therapy can enhance effectiveness …

The JAK-STAT pathway: from structural biology to cytokine engineering

Y Lv, J Qi, JJ Babon, L Cao, G Fan, J Lang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
The Janus kinase-signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK-STAT) pathway
serves as a paradigm for signal transduction from the extracellular environment to the …

Recent advances in molecular mechanisms of cancer immunotherapy

M Kciuk, EB Yahya, M Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The cancer-immunity cycle is characterized by various stimulatory and
inhibitory factors, which together regulate the immune response and halt the extreme …

Roles for macrophage-polarizing interleukins in cancer immunity and immunotherapy

K Mortezaee, J Majidpoor - Cellular Oncology, 2022 - Springer
Macrophages are the most abundant and one of the most critical cells of tumor immunity.
They provide a bridge between innate and adaptive immunity through releasing cytokines …

Radiotherapy and immunology

L Wang, C Lynch, SP Pitroda, A Piffkó, K Yang… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - rupress.org
The majority of cancer patients receive radiotherapy during the course of treatment,
delivered with curative intent for local tumor control or as part of a multimodality regimen …

An engineered concealed IL-15-R elicits tumor-specific CD8+T cell responses through PD-1-cis delivery

J Shen, Z Zou, J Guo, Y Cai, D Xue, Y Liang… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
Checkpoint blockade immunotherapy releases the inhibition of tumor-infiltrating
lymphocytes (TILs) but weakly induces TIL proliferation. Exogenous IL-15 could further …

Designing drug delivery systems for cell therapy

LLW Wang, Y Gao, Z Feng, DJ Mooney… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Cell therapies, such as immune cell and stem cell therapies, are being preclinically and
clinically explored for the treatment of various diseases, but are often limited by low efficacy …