Alleviating hypoxia to improve cancer immunotherapy

P Fan, N Zhang, E Candi, M Agostini, M Piacentini… - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
Tumor hypoxia resulting from abnormal and dysfunctional tumor vascular network poses a
substantial obstacle to immunotherapy. In fact, hypoxia creates an immunosuppressive …

[HTML][HTML] Role of interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) and IFN-γ receptor 1/2 (IFNγR1/2) in regulation of immunity, infection, and cancer development: IFN-γ-dependent or …

H Ding, G Wang, Z Yu, H Sun, L Wang - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2022 - Elsevier
IFN-γ, a soluble cytokine being produced by T lymphocytes, macrophages, mucosal
epithelial cells, or natural killer cells, is able to bind to the IFN-γ receptor (IFNγR) and in turn …

Conserved transcriptional connectivity of regulatory T cells in the tumor microenvironment informs new combination cancer therapy strategies

A Glasner, SA Rose, R Sharma, H Gudjonson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
While regulatory T (Treg) cells are traditionally viewed as professional suppressors of
antigen presenting cells and effector T cells in both autoimmunity and cancer, recent …

Immunovascular classification of HCC reflects reciprocal interaction between immune and angiogenic tumor microenvironments

Y Kurebayashi, K Matsuda, A Ueno, H Tsujikawa… - Hepatology, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Conclusions HCC can be classified into four distinct immunovascular subtypes (IH/AS,
IM/AM, IL/AG, and IL/AL) that reflect the reciprocal interaction between the antitumor immune …

Quickly evolving near‐infrared photoimmunotherapy provides multifaceted approach to modern cancer treatment

H Monaco, S Yokomizo, HS Choi, S Kashiwagi - View, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Among modalities of cancer immunotherapy, near‐infrared photoimmunotherapy (NIR‐PIT)
has reached significant preclinical and clinical stages and quickly evolved over the last 5 …

Tumor accomplice: T cell exhaustion induced by chronic inflammation

L Fang, K Liu, C Liu, X Wang, W Ma, W Xu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The development and response to treatment of tumor are modulated by inflammation, and
chronic inflammation promotes tumor progression and therapy resistance. This article …

Metformin synergizes with PD-1 blockade to promote normalization of tumor vessels via CD8T cells and IFNγ

M Tokumasu, M Nishida, W Zhao, R Chao… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Tumor blood vessels are highly leaky in structure and have poor blood perfusion, which
hampers infiltration and function of CD8T cells within tumor. Normalizing tumor vessels is …

Simultaneously combined cancer cell-and CTLA4-targeted NIR-PIT causes a synergistic treatment effect in syngeneic mouse models

T Kato, R Okada, A Furusawa, F Inagaki… - Molecular cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Near-infrared photoimmunotherapy (NIR-PIT) is a new cancer treatment that utilizes
antibody–IRDye700DX (IR700) conjugates. The clinical use of NIR-PIT has recently been …

IRF4 affects the protective effect of regulatory T cells on the pulmonary vasculature of a bronchopulmonary dysplasia mouse model by regulating FOXP3

Y Zhu, L He, Y Zhu, H Yao, J Jiang, H Lu - Molecular Medicine, 2024 - Springer
Background Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a common chronic lung disease in
preterm infants, characterised by compromised alveolar development and pulmonary …

A comprehensive analysis of HAVCR1 as a prognostic and diagnostic marker for pan-cancer

S Liu, W Tang, J Cao, M Shang, H Sun, J Gong… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Hepatitis A virus cellular receptor (HAVCR1) is a type-1 integral membrane glycoprotein that
plays a key role in immunity and renal regeneration and is abnormally expressed in various …