Tertiary lymphoid structures in the era of cancer immunotherapy

C Sautès-Fridman, F Petitprez, J Calderaro… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) are ectopic lymphoid organs that develop in non-
lymphoid tissues at sites of chronic inflammation including tumours. Key common …

T cell–inflamed versus non-T cell–inflamed tumors: a conceptual framework for cancer immunotherapy drug development and combination therapy selection

JA Trujillo, RF Sweis, R Bao, JJ Luke - Cancer immunology research, 2018 - AACR
Immunotherapies such as checkpoint-blocking antibodies and adoptive cell transfer are
emerging as treatments for a growing number of cancers. Despite clinical activity of …

Agonistic CD40 therapy induces tertiary lymphoid structures but impairs responses to checkpoint blockade in glioma

L van Hooren, A Vaccaro, M Ramachandran… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Gliomas are brain tumors characterized by an immunosuppressive microenvironment.
Immunostimulatory agonistic CD40 antibodies (αCD40) are in clinical development for solid …

Tertiary lymphoid structures in diseases: immune mechanisms and therapeutic advances

L Zhao, S Jin, S Wang, Z Zhang, X Wang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) are defined as lymphoid aggregates formed in non-
hematopoietic organs under pathological conditions. Similar to secondary lymphoid organs …

Best Practices for Spatial Profiling for Breast Cancer Research with the GeoMx® Digital Spatial Profiler

H Bergholtz, JM Carter, A Cesano, MCU Cheang… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In breast cancer, there is a high degree of variability in tumors and the
surrounding tissue called the tumor microenvironment (TME). To better understand tumor …

[HTML][HTML] STING agonist-based treatment promotes vascular normalization and tertiary lymphoid structure formation in the therapeutic melanoma microenvironment

M Chelvanambi, RJ Fecek, JL Taylor… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The degree of immune infiltration in tumors, especially CD8+ T cells, greatly
impacts patient disease course and response to interventional immunotherapy …

Tertiary lymphoid structures in cancer: the double-edged sword role in antitumor immunity and potential therapeutic induction strategies

W Kang, Z Feng, J Luo, Z He, J Liu, J Wu… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The complex tumor microenvironment (TME) plays a vital role in cancer development and
dramatically determines the efficacy of immunotherapy. Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) …

[HTML][HTML] CDK4/6 inhibition promotes immune infiltration in ovarian cancer and synergizes with PD-1 blockade in a B cell-dependent manner

QF Zhang, J Li, K Jiang, R Wang, J Ge, H Yang… - Theranostics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Great progress has been made in the field of tumor immunotherapy in the past decade.
However, the therapeutic effects of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) against ovarian …

The folate pathway inhibitor pemetrexed pleiotropically enhances effects of cancer immunotherapy

DA Schaer, S Geeganage, N Amaladas, ZH Lu… - Clinical cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Purpose: Combination strategies leveraging chemotherapeutic agents and immunotherapy
have held the promise as a method to improve benefit for patients with cancer. However …

3D models in the new era of immune oncology: focus on T cells, CAF and ECM

F Di Modugno, C Colosi, P Trono, G Antonacci… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - Springer
Immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy has changed clinical practice for patients with different
cancers, since these agents have demonstrated a significant improvement of overall survival …