Immune-checkpoint inhibitors: long-term implications of toxicity

DB Johnson, CA Nebhan, JJ Moslehi… - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has heralded a new era in cancer
treatment, enabling the possibility of long-term survival in patients with metastatic disease …

Mechanisms of immune activation and regulation: lessons from melanoma

S Kalaora, A Nagler, JA Wargo, Y Samuels - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Melanoma, a skin cancer that develops from pigment cells, has been studied intensively,
particularly in terms of the immune response to tumours, and has been used as a model for …

T cells specific for α-myosin drive immunotherapy-related myocarditis

ML Axelrod, WC Meijers, EM Screever, J Qin… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Immune-related adverse events, particularly severe toxicities such as myocarditis, are major
challenges to the utility of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in anticancer therapy. The …

Revisiting the role of CD4+ T cells in cancer immunotherapy—new insights into old paradigms

RE Tay, EK Richardson, HC Toh - Cancer gene therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer immunotherapy has revolutionised cancer treatment, with immune checkpoint
blockade (ICB) therapy and adoptive cell therapy (ACT) increasingly becoming standard of …

Tumour-intrinsic resistance to immune checkpoint blockade

A Kalbasi, A Ribas - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract 'Immune checkpoint blockade'for cancer describes the use of therapeutic antibodies
that disrupt negative immune regulatory checkpoints and unleash pre-existing antitumour …

Resistance mechanisms of anti-PD1/PDL1 therapy in solid tumors

Q Lei, D Wang, K Sun, L Wang… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In cancer-immunity cycle, the immune checkpoint PD1 and its ligand PDL1 act as
accomplices to help tumors resist to immunity-induced apoptosis and promote tumor …

The dormant cancer cell life cycle

TG Phan, PI Croucher - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
The success of targeted therapies and immunotherapies has created optimism that cancers
may be curable. However, not all patients respond, drug resistance is common and many …

Stem cell-derived exosomes as nanotherapeutics for autoimmune and neurodegenerative disorders

M Riazifar, MR Mohammadi, EJ Pone, A Yeri… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
To dissect therapeutic mechanisms of transplanted stem cells and develop exosome-based
nanotherapeutics in treating autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases, we assessed …

Predictive biomarkers and mechanisms underlying resistance to PD1/PD-L1 blockade cancer immunotherapy

D Ren, Y Hua, B Yu, X Ye, Z He, C Li, J Wang, Y Mo… - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Immune checkpoint blockade targeting PD-1/PD-L1 has promising therapeutic efficacy in a
variety of tumors, but resistance during treatment is a major issue. In this review, we describe …

mTORC1 upregulates B7-H3/CD276 to inhibit antitumor T cells and drive tumor immune evasion

HJ Liu, H Du, D Khabibullin, M Zarei, K Wei… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Identifying the mechanisms underlying the regulation of immune checkpoint molecules and
the therapeutic impact of targeting them in cancer is critical. Here we show that high …