Self-assembled polysaccharide nanogel delivery system for overcoming tumor immune resistance

D Muraoka, N Harada, H Shiku, K Akiyoshi - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
In therapeutic cancer vaccines, vaccine antigens must be efficiently delivered to the antigen-
presenting cells (dendritic cells and macrophages) located in the lymphoid organs (lymph …

Folate receptor-targeted immunotherapy of cancer: mechanism and therapeutic potential

Y Lu, E Sega, CP Leamon, PS Low - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2004 - Elsevier
The vitamin, folic acid, has become a useful ligand for targeted cancer therapies because it
binds to a tumor-associated antigen known as the folate receptor (FR). By linking folic acid to …

Autoantibodies: opportunities for early cancer detection

IK Macdonald, CB Parsy-Kowalska, CJ Chapman - Trends in cancer, 2017 - cell.com
Cancer cells can induce an immunological response resulting in the production of tumor-
associated (TA) autoantibodies. These serum immunobiomarkers have been detected for a …

Radiation as an immune modulator

B Burnette, RR Weichselbaum - Seminars in radiation oncology, 2013 - Elsevier
Radiation therapy is currently one of the most widely utilized treatment strategies in the
clinical management of cancer. Classically, radiation therapy was developed as an …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer: An unknown territory; rethinking before going ahead

A Upadhyay - Genes & diseases, 2021 - Elsevier
Cancer is a disease of altered signaling and metabolism, causing uncontrolled division and
survival of transformed cells. A host of molecules, factors, and conditions have been …

Dendritic cells: controllers of the immune system and a new promise for immunotherapy

J Banchereau, J Fay, V Pascual… - Generation and Effector …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Dendritic cells (DCs) can be utilized either as vectors or as targets for therapy. Patients with
metastatic melanoma received CD34‐DC vaccine that contains Langerhans' cells and …

Immune responses in cancer

JK Adam, B Odhav, KD Bhoola - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2003 - Elsevier
The complex of humoral factors and immune cells comprises two interleaved systems,
innate and acquired. Immune cells scan the occurrence of any molecule that it considers to …

Immunotherapy of folate receptor-expressing tumors: review of recent advances and future prospects

Y Lu, PS Low - Journal of Controlled Release, 2003 - Elsevier
The cell surface receptor for the vitamin folic acid (termed the folate receptor), is often
elevated in cancers of the ovary, kidney, lung, mammary gland, brain, endometrium, and …

Human solid tumors and clinical relevance of the enhanced permeation and retention effect: a 'golden gate'for nanomedicine in preclinical studies?

P Gawali, A Saraswat, S Bhide, S Gupta, K Patel - Nanomedicine, 2023 - Future Medicine
Nanocarriers passively accumulate in solid tumors through irregular wide fenestrations in
neovasculature and increased retention due to poor lymphatic drainage, a phenomenon …

A current review of folate receptor alpha as a potential tumor target in non-small-cell lung cancer

H Shi, J Guo, C Li, Z Wang - Drug design, development and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Lung cancer remains the leading common cause of cancer-related death, with non-small-
cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounting for 80% of all cases. To date, platinum-based doublet …