A timeline of tumour-associated macrophage biology

L Cassetta, JW Pollard - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Tumour progression is modulated by the local microenvironment. This environment is
populated by many immune cells, of which macrophages are among the most abundant …

Targeting macrophages in cancer immunotherapy

Z Duan, Y Luo - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapy is regarded as the most promising treatment for cancers. Various cancer
immunotherapies, including adoptive cellular immunotherapy, tumor vaccines, antibodies …

Tumor-associated macrophages expressing the transcription factor IRF8 promote T cell exhaustion in cancer

BG Nixon, F Kuo, LL Ji, M Liu, K Capistrano, M Do… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Tumors are populated by antigen-presenting cells (APCs) including macrophage subsets
with distinct origins and functions. Here, we examined how cancer impacts mononuclear …

Tumor angiogenesis: causes, consequences, challenges and opportunities

R Lugano, M Ramachandran, A Dimberg - Cellular and Molecular Life …, 2020 - Springer
Tumor vascularization occurs through several distinct biological processes, which not only
vary between tumor type and anatomic location, but also occur simultaneously within the …

Diversity, mechanisms, and significance of macrophage plasticity

M Locati, G Curtale, A Mantovani - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Macrophages are a diverse set of cells present in all body compartments. This diversity is
imprinted by their ontogenetic origin (embryonal versus adult bone marrow–derived cells); …

Phenotype molding of stromal cells in the lung tumor microenvironment

D Lambrechts, E Wauters, B Boeckx, S Aibar… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Cancer cells are embedded in the tumor microenvironment (TME), a complex ecosystem of
stromal cells. Here, we present a 52,698-cell catalog of the TME transcriptome in human …

Macrophage reprogramming and cancer therapeutics: role of iNOS-derived NO

K Kashfi, J Kannikal, N Nath - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nitric oxide and its production by iNOS is an established mechanism critical to tumor
promotion or suppression. Macrophages have important roles in immunity, development …

Dual effect of immune cells within tumour microenvironment: pro-and anti-tumour effects and their triggers

AC Peña-Romero, E Orenes-Piñero - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The relationship between the immune system and tumours is currently one
of the most studied topics in the field of cancer. Previously, it was thought that a tumour could …

DNA exonuclease Trex1 regulates radiotherapy-induced tumour immunogenicity

C Vanpouille-Box, A Alard, MJ Aryankalayil… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Radiotherapy is under investigation for its ability to enhance responses to immunotherapy.
However, the mechanisms by which radiation induces anti-tumour T cells remain unclear …

The roles of tumor-associated macrophages in tumor angiogenesis and metastasis

LQ Fu, WL Du, MH Cai, JY Yao, YY Zhao, XZ Mou - Cellular immunology, 2020 - Elsevier
Tumor associated macrophages (TAMs) are the most frequent immune cells within tumor
microenvironment (TME). There is growing evidence that TAMs are involved in tumor …