Dendritic cell paucity in mismatch repair–proficient colorectal cancer liver metastases limits immune checkpoint blockade efficacy

WW Ho, IL Gomes-Santos, S Aoki… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Liver metastasis is a major cause of mortality for patients with colorectal cancer (CRC).
Mismatch repair–proficient (pMMR) CRCs make up about 95% of metastatic CRCs, and are …

Kaempferol can reverse the 5-Fu resistance of colorectal cancer cells by inhibiting PKM2-mediated glycolysis

H Wu, J Du, C Li, H Li, H Guo, Z Li - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Resistance to 5-Fluorouracil (5-Fu) chemotherapy is the main cause of treatment failure in
the cure of colon cancer. Therefore, there is an urgent need to explore a safe and effective …

Microenvironmental ammonia enhances T cell exhaustion in colorectal cancer

HN Bell, AK Huber, R Singhal, N Korimerla… - Cell metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
Effective therapies are lacking for patients with advanced colorectal cancer (CRC). The CRC
tumor microenvironment has elevated metabolic waste products due to altered metabolism …

Organoids and organs-on-chips: insights into predicting the efficacy of systemic treatment in colorectal cancer

J Zhu, L Ji, Y Chen, H Li, M Huang, Z Dai, J Wang… - Cell Death …, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer heterogeneity has posed a great challenge to traditional cancer treatment, with the
reappearance of cancer heterogeneity of inter and intra patients being especially critical …

Acetyltransferase from Akkermansia muciniphila blunts colorectal tumourigenesis by reprogramming tumour microenvironment

Y Jiang, Y Xu, C Zheng, L Ye, P Jiang, S Malik, G Xu… - Gut, 2023 - gut.bmj.com
Objective The protein post-translational modification (PTM) in host cells can be rewritten by
bacterial enzymes and represents an unprecedented mechanism in the communication …

Current progress and future perspectives of neoadjuvant anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy for colorectal cancer

Z Yang, G Wu, X Zhang, J Gao, C Meng, Y Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Immunotherapies, especially the programmed cell death 1/programmed cell death ligand 1
(PD-1/PD-L1) inhibitors, have revolutionized the therapeutic strategies of various cancers …

Drug repurposing screening and mechanism analysis based on human colorectal cancer organoids

Y Mao, W Wang, J Yang, X Zhou, Y Lu, J Gao… - Protein & …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a highly heterogeneous cancer and exploring novel therapeutic
options is a pressing issue that needs to be addressed. Here, we established human CRC …

The ameliorative role of probiotics in 5-fluorouracil induced intestinal mucositis

AAXH Sim, JY Cheam, JWF Law… - … in Microbes and …, 2023 - research.monash.edu
Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains one of the top cancers in the world. Although early
detection improves the survival rate to around 90%, late detection would mean the need to …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting cathepsin B by cycloastragenol enhances antitumor immunity of CD8 T cells via inhibiting MHC-I degradation

G Deng, L Zhou, B Wang, X Sun, Q Zhang… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The loss of tumor antigens and depletion of CD8 T cells caused by the PD-1/PD-
L1 pathway are important factors for tumor immune escape. In recent years, there has been …

Microsatellite instability testing in colorectal patients with Lynch syndrome: lessons learned from a case report and how to avoid such pitfalls

S Adeleke, A Haslam, A Choy, S Diaz-Cano… - Personalized …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
We present the case of a patient with Lynch syndrome and metastatic colorectal carcinoma
(mCRC). The initial immunohistochemistry (IHC) test for deficient mismatch repair gave a …