Cytotoxic CD8+ T cells in cancer and cancer immunotherapy

H Raskov, A Orhan, JP Christensen… - British journal of cancer, 2021 - nature.com
The functions of, and interactions between, the innate and adaptive immune systems are
vital for anticancer immunity. Cytotoxic T cells expressing cell-surface CD8 are the most …

Tyrosine kinase inhibitors in cancer: breakthrough and challenges of targeted therapy

C Pottier, M Fresnais, M Gilon, G Jérusalem… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are key regulatory signaling proteins governing cancer
cell growth and metastasis. During the last two decades, several molecules targeting RTKs …

Anti-angiogenic agents in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a promising strategy for cancer treatment

Y Song, Y Fu, Q Xie, B Zhu, J Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Advances in cancer immunity have promoted a major breakthrough in the field of cancer
therapy. This is mainly associated with the successful development of immune checkpoint …

Emerging biomaterials for tumor immunotherapy

M Xiao, Q Tang, S Zeng, Q Yang, X Yang… - Biomaterials …, 2023 - spj.science.org
Background The immune system interacts with cancer cells in various intricate ways that can
protect the individual from overproliferation of cancer cells; however, these interactions can …

Necroptosis in immuno-oncology and cancer immunotherapy

J Sprooten, P De Wijngaert, I Vanmeerbeek, S Martin… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Immune-checkpoint blockers (ICBs) have revolutionized oncology and firmly established the
subfield of immuno-oncology. Despite this renaissance, a subset of cancer patients remain …

Functionalized reduced graphene oxide as a versatile tool for cancer therapy

BS Dash, G Jose, YJ Lu, JP Chen - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cancer is one of the deadliest diseases in human history with extremely poor prognosis.
Although many traditional therapeutic modalities—such as surgery, chemotherapy, and …

Efficacy evaluation of chimeric antigen receptor-modified human peritoneal macrophages in the treatment of gastric cancer

X Dong, J Fan, W Xie, X Wu, J Wei, Z He… - British Journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
Background Gastric cancer is one of the most common cancers. Peritoneal carcinomatosis
(PC) appears to be the most common pattern of recurrence, and more than half of the GC …

Cytotoxic chemotherapy as an immune stimulus: a molecular perspective on turning up the immunological heat on cancer

JW Opzoomer, D Sosnowska, JE Anstee… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cytotoxic chemotherapeutics (CCTs) are widely used in the treatment of cancer. Although
their mechanisms of action have been best understood in terms of targeting the apparatus of …

Immune regulatory processes of the tumor microenvironment under malignant conditions

K Pansy, B Uhl, J Krstic, M Szmyra, K Fechter… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is a critical regulator of tumor growth, progression, and
metastasis. Since immune cells represent a large fraction of the TME, they play a key role in …

Injectable dual-scale mesoporous silica cancer vaccine enabling efficient delivery of antigen/adjuvant-loaded nanoparticles to dendritic cells recruited in local …

TL Nguyen, BG Cha, Y Choi, J Im, J Kim - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite the potential of nanoparticle-based vaccines, their therapeutic efficacy for cancer
immunotherapy is limited. To elicit robust antigen-specific adaptive immune responses …