Mechanisms of resistance to immune checkpoint blockade: why does checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy not work for all patients?

CM Fares, EM Van Allen, CG Drake… - American Society of …, 2019 - ascopubs.org
The emergence of immune checkpoint blockade therapies over the last decade has
transformed cancer treatment in a wide range of tumor types. Unprecedented and durable …

Optimizing oncolytic virotherapy in cancer treatment

K Harrington, DJ Freeman, B Kelly, J Harper… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2019 - nature.com
In the wake of the success of modern immunotherapy, oncolytic viruses (OVs) are currently
seen as a potential therapeutic option for patients with cancer who do not respond or fail to …

[HTML][HTML] The many faces of the anti-COVID immune response

SA Vardhana, JD Wolchok - Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2020 - rupress.org
Disclosures: SA Vardhana reported personal fees from Immunai and personal fees from
ADC Therapeutics outside the submitted work; in addition, SA Vardhana had a patent to …

[HTML][HTML] The role of interleukin 6 during viral infections

L Velazquez-Salinas, A Verdugo-Rodriguez… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Our recently published research on the characterization of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV)
pathogenesis in swine, identified a systemic upregulation of interleukin 6 (IL-6) during the …

[HTML][HTML] The PD1: PD-L1/2 pathway from discovery to clinical implementation

K Bardhan, T Anagnostou, VA Boussiotis - Frontiers in immunology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The immune system maintains a critically organized network to defend against foreign
particles, while evading self-reactivity simultaneously. T lymphocytes function as effectors …

Resistance to PD1/PDL1 checkpoint inhibition

JS O'Donnell, GV Long, RA Scolyer, MWL Teng… - Cancer treatment …, 2017 - Elsevier
For the first time in decades, patients with difficult-to-treat cancers such as advanced stage
metastatic melanoma are being offered a glimpse of hope in the form of immunotherapies …

[HTML][HTML] Immunity, inflammation, and cancer: an eternal fight between good and evil

S Shalapour, M Karin - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2015 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Cancer development and its response to therapy are strongly influenced by innate and
adaptive immunity, which either promote or attenuate tumorigenesis and can have opposing …

[HTML][HTML] Rational combination of oncolytic vaccinia virus and PD-L1 blockade works synergistically to enhance therapeutic efficacy

Z Liu, R Ravindranathan, P Kalinski, ZS Guo… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Both anti-PD1/PD-L1 therapy and oncolytic virotherapy have demonstrated
promise, yet have exhibited efficacy in only a small fraction of cancer patients. Here we …

T cell exhaustion

EJ Wherry - Nature immunology, 2011 - nature.com
T cell exhaustion is a state of T cell dysfunction that arises during many chronic infections
and cancer. It is defined by poor effector function, sustained expression of inhibitory …

Metabolic regulation of T lymphocytes

NJ MacIver, RD Michalek… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
T cell activation leads to dramatic shifts in cell metabolism to protect against pathogens and
to orchestrate the action of other immune cells. Quiescent T cells require predominantly ATP …