Cancer immunotherapy with check point inhibitor can cause autoimmune adverse events due to loss of Treg homeostasis

P Kumar, S Saini, BS Prabhakar - Seminars in cancer biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Regulatory T-cells (Tregs) can facilitate immune evasion by tumor cells by dampening anti-
tumor immunity. Reduced Teff/Treg ratio and enhanced Treg functional activity have been …

Treg-mediated acquired resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors

R Saleh, E Elkord - Cancer letters, 2019 - Elsevier
T Regulatory cells (Tregs) act as a double-edged sword by regulating immune homeostasis
(protective role) and inhibiting immune responses in different disease settings (pathological …

The impact of Tregs on the anticancer immunity and the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies

JM González-Navajas, DD Fan, S Yang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Although cancers arise from genetic mutations enabling cells to proliferate uncontrollably,
they cannot thrive without failure of the anticancer immunity due in a large part to the tumor …

Balancing cancer immunotherapy and immune-related adverse events: The emerging role of regulatory T cells

T Alissafi, A Hatzioannou, AI Legaki, A Varveri… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Advances in our understanding οf tumor immunity have prompted a paradigm shift in
oncology, with the emergence of immunotherapy, where therapeutic agents are used to …

Treg fragility: a prerequisite for effective antitumor immunity?

AE Overacre-Delgoffe, DAA Vignali - Cancer immunology research, 2018 - AACR
Inhibitory checkpoint blockade has significantly improved patient response rate across
numerous tumor types. However, most patients remain unresponsive to immunotherapy …

Immune checkpoint inhibitors in cancer therapy: a focus on Tregulatory cells

V Sasidharan Nair, E Elkord - Immunology and cell biology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) play essential roles in immune homeostasis; however, their role in
tumor microenvironment (TME) is not completely evident. Several studies reported that …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of regulatory T cell infiltration in tumors: implications for innovative immune precision therapies

S Koyama, H Nishikawa - Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
With the broad application of cancer immunotherapies such as immune checkpoint inhibitors
in multiple cancer types, the immunological landscape in the tumor microenvironment (TME) …

Regulatory T cells: a potential target in cancer immunotherapy

K Shitara, H Nishikawa - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer immunotherapy involving blockade of immune checkpoint molecules, such as CTLA
4 and PD1, has shown remarkable clinical success across several types of malignancies …

Understanding adverse events of immunotherapy: A mechanistic perspective

KP Burke, S Grebinoski, AH Sharpe… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - rupress.org
The treatment of many cancers has been revolutionized by immune checkpoint blockade
(ICB) as a standard-of-care therapeutic. Despite many successes, a large proportion of …

Regulatory T-cell transcriptomic reprogramming characterizes adverse events by checkpoint inhibitors in solid tumors

M Grigoriou, A Banos, A Hatzioannou, A Kloetgen… - Cancer immunology …, 2021 - AACR
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI), which target immune regulatory pathways to unleash
antitumor responses, have revolutionized cancer immunotherapy. Despite the remarkable …