A review of current and pipeline drugs for treatment of melanoma

N Natarelli, SJ Aleman, IM Mark, JT Tran, S Kwak… - Pharmaceuticals, 2024 - mdpi.com
Malignant melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer. Standard treatment options
include surgery, radiation therapy, systemic chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and …

Gut microbiota: A double-edged sword in immune checkpoint blockade immunotherapy against tumors

J Wang, N Zhu, X Su, R Yang - Cancer Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Tumor cells can evade immune surveillance by expressing immune checkpoint molecule
ligands, resulting in effective immune cell inactivation. Immune checkpoint blockades (ICBs) …

The Importance of HHLA2 in Solid Tumors—A Review of the Literature

A Kula, D Koszewska, A Kot, M Dawidowicz… - Cells, 2024 - mdpi.com
Cancer immunotherapy is a rapidly developing field of medicine that aims to use the host's
immune mechanisms to inhibit and eliminate cancer cells. Antibodies targeting CTLA-4, PD …

Arginine-linked HPV-associated E7 displaying bacteria-derived outer membrane vesicles as a potent antigen-specific cancer vaccine

S Wang, CC Chen, MH Hu, M Cheng, HF Tu… - Journal of Translational …, 2024 - Springer
Background Bacteria-based cancer therapy have demonstrated innovative strategies to
combat tumors. Recent studies have focused on gram-negative bacterial outer membrane …

Transforming growth factors β and their signaling pathway in renal cell carcinoma and peritumoral space—transcriptome analysis

D Kajdaniuk, D Hudy, JK Strzelczyk, K Młynarek… - Clinical and …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose The aim of the study was to verify hypotheses: Are transforming growth factors
TGFβ1-3, their receptors TGFβI-III, and intracellular messenger proteins Smad1-7 involved …

Complexity of tumor microenvironment: A major culprit in cancer development

I Bukhari, Y Zhang, RF Thorne, Y Mi - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is a complex landscape composed of intrinsic and
extrinsic elements besides tumor cells including various immune cells, tumor-related stromal …

Co-inhibition of adenosine 2b receptor and programmed death-ligand 1 promotes the recruitment and cytotoxicity of natural killer cells in oral squamous cell …

B Wang, T Wang, C Yang, Z Nan, D Ai, X Wang… - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Adenosine promotes anti-tumor immune responses by modulating the functions of T-cells
and natural killer (NK) cells in the tumor microenvironment; however, the role of adenosine …

Phagocytosis Checkpoints in Glioblastoma: CD47 and Beyond

A Afzal, Z Afzal, S Bizink, A Davis, S Makahleh… - 2024 - preprints.org
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is one of the deadliest human cancers with very lim-ited
treatment options available. The malignant behavior of GBM is manifest in a tu-mor which is …

Generation of murine CAR-T cells to assess anti-tumor efficacy in syngeneic models

Z Wang - 2023 - open.bu.edu
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancer types in women and its metastases cause
most patient deaths in the advanced stage of this disease. 1, 2, 3 Unfortunately, metastases …

Identifying cell type-specific proliferation signatures in spatial transcriptomics data and inferring interactions driving tumour growth

F Wærn - 2023 - diva-portal.org
Cancer is a dangerous disease caused by mutations in the host's genome that makes the
cells proliferate uncontrollably and disrupts bodily functions. The immune system tries to …