Immunosuppressive cells in cancer: mechanisms and potential therapeutic targets

Y Tie, F Tang, Y Wei, X Wei - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2022 - Springer
Immunotherapies like the adoptive transfer of gene-engineered T cells and immune
checkpoint inhibitors are novel therapeutic modalities for advanced cancers. However, some …

Recent advances in CAR-based solid tumor immunotherapy

MH Shin, E Oh, Y Kim, DH Nam, SY Jeon, JH Yu… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Adoptive cell therapy using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) technology is one of the most
advanced engineering platforms for cancer immunotherapy. CAR-T cells have shown …

mRNAs encoding IL-12 and a decoy-resistant variant of IL-18 synergize to engineer T cells for efficacious intratumoral adoptive immunotherapy

I Olivera, E Bolaños, J Gonzalez-Gomariz… - Cell Reports …, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Interleukin-12 (IL-12) gene transfer enhances the therapeutic potency of adoptive
T cell therapies. We previously reported that transient engineering of tumor-specific CD8 T …

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 …

Development and validation of a pyroptosis-related long non-coding RNA signature for hepatocellular carcinoma

ZH Wu, ZW Li, DL Yang, J Liu - Frontiers in cell and developmental …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a highly aggressive malignant disease,
and numerous studies have demonstrated that an inflammatory environment can induce …

The new frontier of immunotherapy: chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell and macrophage (CAR-M) therapy against breast cancer

G Schepisi, C Gianni, M Palleschi, S Bleve, C Casadei… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary To date, different therapeutic strategies, including immunotherapies, have
been shown to prolong survival in breast cancer patients, representing one of the most …

Dual-aptamer-engineered M1 macrophage with enhanced specific targeting and checkpoint blocking for solid-tumor immunotherapy

H Qian, Y Fu, M Guo, Y Chen, D Zhang, Y Wei, F Jin… - Molecular Therapy, 2022 - cell.com
Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy has faced a series of challenges and has
shown very little efficacy in solid tumors to date. Although genetically engineered …

The role of macrophages in gastric cancer

J Zhang, C Hu, R Zhang, J Xu, Y Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
As one of the deadliest cancers of the gastrointestinal tract, there has been limited
improvement in long-term survival rates for gastric cancer (GC) in recent decades. The poor …

[HTML][HTML] Scalable generation of functional human iPSC-derived CAR-macrophages that efficiently eradicate CD19-positive leukemia

SM Abdin, D Paasch, A Kloos, MC Oliveira… - … for Immunotherapy of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Macrophages have recently become attractive therapeutics in cancer
immunotherapy. The potential of macrophages to infiltrate and influence solid malignancies …

[HTML][HTML] CAR-T cells targeting immune checkpoint pathway players

V Golubovskaya - Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark, 2022 - imrpress.com
CAR (Chimeric antigen receptor)-T cell therapy has become a very promising type of
immunotherapy against hematological cancers. This report is focused on CAR-T cells …