Engaging stemness improves cancer immunotherapy

H Dianat-Moghadam, M Sharifi, R Salehi, M Keshavarz… - Cancer Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Intra-tumoral immune cells promote the stemness of cancer stem cells (CSCs) in the tumor
microenvironment (TME). CSCs promote tumor progression, relapse, and resistance to …

Macrophages as tools and targets in cancer therapy

A Mantovani, P Allavena, F Marchesi… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Tumour-associated macrophages are an essential component of the tumour
microenvironment and have a role in the orchestration of angiogenesis, extracellular matrix …

[HTML][HTML] Protocol to drive human monocyte-to-macrophage polarization in vitro using tumor conditioned media

S George, M Georgouli, V Sanz-Moreno - STAR protocols, 2022 - Elsevier
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are key contributors to antitumor immunity. Here,
we present a protocol to drive human monocyte-macrophage differentiation using tumor …

Leveraging macrophages for cancer theranostics

L Liu, H Li, J Wang, J Zhang, XJ Liang, W Guo… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
As fundamental immune cells in innate and adaptive immunity, macrophages engage in a
double-edged relationship with cancer. Dissecting the character of macrophages in cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Tumacrophage: macrophages transformed into tumor stem-like cells by virulent genetic material from tumor cells

Y Zhang, N Zhou, X Yu, X Zhang, S Li, Z Lei, R Hu… - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tumor-associated macrophages are regarded as tumor-enhancers as they have key roles in
the subversion of adaptive immunity and in inflammatory circuits that promote tumor …

Understanding the origin and diversity of macrophages to tailor their targeting in solid cancers

K Kielbassa, S Vegna, C Ramirez, L Akkari - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are a major component of the tumor immune
microenvironment (TIME) and are associated with a poor prognostic factor in several …

CAR-macrophages and CAR-T cells synergistically kill tumor cells in vitro

M Liu, J Liu, Z Liang, K Dai, J Gan, Q Wang, Y Xu… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-expressing macrophages (CAR-M) have a great potential
to improve cancer therapy, as shown from several recent preclinical studies. However …

Monocyte programming by cancer therapy

M Patysheva, A Frolova, I Larionova… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Monocytes in peripheral blood circulation are the precursor of essential cells that control
tumor progression, that include tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs), dendritic cells …

Macrophage-based cell therapies: the long and winding road

S Lee, S Kivimäe, A Dolor, FC Szoka - Journal of Controlled Release, 2016 - Elsevier
In the quest for better medicines, attention is increasingly turning to cell-based therapies.
The rationale is that infused cells can provide a targeted therapy to precisely correct a …

CAR race to cancer immunotherapy: from CAR T, CAR NK to CAR macrophage therapy

K Pan, H Farrukh, VCSR Chittepu, H Xu, C Pan… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - Springer
Adoptive cell therapy with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) immunotherapy has made
tremendous progress with five CAR T therapies approved by the US Food and Drug …