Cyclooxygenase-2-Prostaglandin E2 pathway: A key player in tumor-associated immune cells

K Jin, C Qian, J Lin, B Liu - Frontiers in oncology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Cyclooxygenases-2 (COX-2) and Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), which are important in chronic
inflammatory diseases, can increase tumor incidence and promote tumor growth and …

Cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor: a potential combination strategy with immunotherapy in cancer

D Pu, L Yin, L Huang, C Qin, Y Zhou, Q Wu, Y Li… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The clinical application of immunotherapy is the milestone of cancer treatment. However,
some patients have bad reaction. Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is frequently expressed in …

Cyclooxygenase-2 promotes tumor growth and suppresses tumor immunity

B Liu, L Qu, S Yan - Cancer cell international, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), an inducible form of the enzyme that catalyzes the first
step in the synthesis of prostanoids, is associated with inflammatory diseases and …

Prostaglandin E receptor 4 antagonist in cancer immunotherapy: mechanisms of action

Y Take, S Koizumi, A Nagahisa - Frontiers in Immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
A highly expressed prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) in tumor tissues suppresses antitumor
immunity in the tumor microenvironment (TME) and causes tumor immune evasion leading …

Prostaglandin E2 and cancer: insight into tumor progression and immunity

F Finetti, C Travelli, J Ercoli, G Colombo, E Buoso… - Biology, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Inflammation is assessed as a hallmark of cancer and it is now widely
recognized that there exists a direct causal link between inflammation and tumors. Among …

[HTML][HTML] Cyclooxygenase-dependent tumor growth through evasion of immunity

S Zelenay, AG Van Der Veen, JP Böttcher… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
The mechanisms by which melanoma and other cancer cells evade anti-tumor immunity
remain incompletely understood. Here, we show that the growth of tumors formed by mutant …

The role of prostaglandin E2 in tumor-associated immunosuppression

D Wang, RN DuBois - Trends in molecular medicine, 2016 - cell.com
Tumor-associated inflammation can create an immunosuppressive microenvironment
allowing tumor cells to escape immunosurveillance. Inhibiting immunosuppression remains …

Chemotherapy-induced COX-2 upregulation by cancer cells defines their inflammatory properties and limits the efficacy of chemoimmunotherapy combinations

CR Bell, VS Pelly, A Moeini, SC Chiang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Cytotoxic therapies, besides directly inducing cancer cell death, can stimulate immune-
dependent tumor growth control or paradoxically accelerate tumor progression. The …

A prostaglandin E (PGE) receptor EP4 antagonist protects natural killer cells from PGE2-mediated immunosuppression and inhibits breast cancer metastasis

X Ma, D Holt, N Kundu, J Reader, O Goloubeva… - …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Cyclooxygenase-2 is frequently upregulated in epithelial tumors and contributes to poor
outcomes in multiple malignancies. The COX-2 product prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) promotes …

Prostaglandin E2/EP signaling in the tumor microenvironment of colorectal cancer

R Mizuno, K Kawada, Y Sakai - International journal of molecular …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The number of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients is increasing worldwide. Accumulating
evidence has shown that the tumor microenvironment (TME), including macrophages …