Roles of natural killer cells in immunity to cancer, and applications to immunotherapy

NK Wolf, DU Kissiov, DH Raulet - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Great strides have been made in recent years towards understanding the roles of natural
killer (NK) cells in immunity to tumours and viruses. NK cells are cytotoxic innate lymphoid …

Myeloid-derived suppressor cells in the era of increasing myeloid cell diversity

F Veglia, E Sanseviero, DI Gabrilovich - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are pathologically activated neutrophils and
monocytes with potent immunosuppressive activity. They are implicated in the regulation of …

Exploring the NK cell platform for cancer immunotherapy

JA Myers, JS Miller - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2021 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are cytotoxic lymphocytes of the innate immune system that are
capable of killing virally infected and/or cancerous cells. Nearly 20 years ago, NK cell …

The use of supercytokines, immunocytokines, engager cytokines, and other synthetic cytokines in immunotherapy

X Zheng, Y Wu, J Bi, Y Huang, Y Cheng, Y Li… - Cellular & molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Cytokines exert powerful immunomodulatory effects that are critical to physiology and
pathology in humans. The application of natural cytokines in clinical studies has not been …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering interferons and interleukins for cancer immunotherapy

PG Holder, SA Lim, CS Huang, P Sharma… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cytokines are a class of potent immunoregulatory proteins that are secreted in response to
various stimuli and act locally to regulate many aspects of human physiology and disease …

iPSC-derived natural killer cell therapies-expansion and targeting

BH Goldenson, P Hor, DS Kaufman - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Treatment of cancer with allogeneic natural killer (NK) cell therapies has seen rapid
development, especially use against hematologic malignancies. Clinical trials of NK cell …

The function of NK cells in tumor metastasis and NK cell-based immunotherapy

Y Yu - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Innate immune natural killer (NK) cells are capable of killing metastatic
cancer cells without activation by antigen-presenting cells beforehand. The cytotoxic effects …

Immunomodulatory effects of IL-2 and IL-15; implications for cancer immunotherapy

Y Yang, A Lundqvist - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Emerging knowledge of the two type I cytokine family members IL-2 and IL-
15 has led to critical therapeutic implications for cancer treatment. Here we discuss the …

KIR receptors as key regulators of NK cells activity in health and disease

J Dębska-Zielkowska, G Moszkowska, M Zieliński… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are part of the cellular immune response. They target mainly cancer
and virally infected cells. To a high extent cytotoxic activity of NK cells is regulated inter alia …

Unleashing natural killer cells in the tumor microenvironment–the next generation of immunotherapy?

A Ben-Shmuel, G Biber, M Barda-Saad - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The emergence of immunotherapy for cancer treatment bears considerable clinical promise.
Nevertheless, many patients remain unresponsive, acquire resistance, or suffer dose …