Exploiting innate immunity for cancer immunotherapy

M Yi, T Li, M Niu, Q Mei, B Zhao, Q Chu, Z Dai, K Wu - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
Immunotherapies have revolutionized the treatment paradigms of various types of cancers.
However, most of these immunomodulatory strategies focus on harnessing adaptive …

Forks in the road for CAR T and CAR NK cell cancer therapies

OK Dagher, AD Posey Jr - Nature Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
The advent of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has resulted in unprecedented
long-term clearance of relapse/refractory hematological malignancies in both pediatric and …

Tumour-associated macrophages: versatile players in the tumour microenvironment

ZZ Ji, MKK Chan, ASW Chan, KT Leung… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Tumour-Associated Macrophages (TAMs) are one of the pivotal components of the tumour
microenvironment. Their roles in the cancer immunity are complicated, both pro-tumour and …

Current approaches to develop “off-the-shelf” chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells for cancer treatment: a systematic review

C Aparicio, C Acebal, M González-Vallinas - Experimental Hematology & …, 2023 - Springer
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy is one of the most promising advances in
cancer treatment. It is based on genetically modified T cells to express a CAR, which …

Eosinophils in the tumor microenvironment: implications for cancer immunotherapy

S Ghaffari, N Rezaei - Journal of Translational Medicine, 2023 - Springer
Despite being an integral part of the immune response in the tumor microenvironment
(TME), few studies have mechanistically elucidated eosinophil functions in cancer …

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 …

FGFR-targeted therapeutics: Clinical activity, mechanisms of resistance and new directions

M Katoh, Y Loriot, G Brandi, S Tavolari… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signalling via FGF receptors (FGFR1–4) orchestrates fetal
development and contributes to tissue and whole-body homeostasis, but can also promote …

Oxamate enhances the efficacy of CAR-T therapy against glioblastoma via suppressing ectonucleotidases and CCR8 lactylation

T Sun, B Liu, Y Li, J Wu, Y Cao, S Yang, H Tan… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - Springer
Background Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T immunotherapy fails to treat solid tumors
due in part to immunosuppressive microenvironment. Excess lactate produced by tumor …

Dual-inhibitory domain iCARs improve the efficiency of the AND-NOT gate CAR T strategy

NJ Bangayan, L Wang, G Burton Sojo… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) T cell therapy has shown clinical success in treating
hematological malignancies, but its treatment of solid tumors has been limited. One major …

Chimeric antigen receptor engineered natural killer cells for cancer therapy

Y Zhang, W Zhou, J Yang, J Yang, W Wang - Experimental Hematology & …, 2023 - Springer
Natural killer (NK) cells, a unique component of the innate immune system, are inherent
killers of stressed and transformed cells. Based on their potent capacity to kill cancer cells …