Enhancing cancer immunotherapy with nanomedicine

DJ Irvine, EL Dane - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Therapeutic targeting of the immune system in cancer is now a clinical reality and marked
successes have been achieved, most notably through the use of checkpoint blockade …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor microenvironment participates in metastasis of pancreatic cancer

B Ren, M Cui, G Yang, H Wang, M Feng, L You… - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
Pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease with high mortality due to difficulties in its early
diagnosis and metastasis. The tumor microenvironment induced by interactions between …

Endosomolytic polymersomes increase the activity of cyclic dinucleotide STING agonists to enhance cancer immunotherapy

D Shae, KW Becker, P Christov, DS Yun… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Cyclic dinucleotide (CDN) agonists of stimulator of interferon genes (STING) are a promising
class of immunotherapeutics that activate innate immunity to increase tumour …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor invasion in draining lymph nodes is associated with Treg accumulation in breast cancer patients

NG Núñez, J Tosello Boari, RN Ramos… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Tumor-draining lymph node (TDLN) invasion by metastatic cells in breast cancer correlates
with poor prognosis and is associated with local immunosuppression, which can be partly …

[HTML][HTML] Nanoparticles in tumor microenvironment remodeling and cancer immunotherapy

Q Lu, D Kou, S Lou, M Ashrafizadeh, AR Aref… - Journal of Hematology & …, 2024 - Springer
Cancer immunotherapy and vaccine development have significantly improved the fight
against cancers. Despite these advancements, challenges remain, particularly in the clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Resident memory CD8+ T cells in regional lymph nodes mediate immunity to metastatic melanoma

AK Molodtsov, N Khatwani, JL Vella, KA Lewis, Y Zhao… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
The nature of the anti-tumor immune response changes as primary tumors progress and
metastasize. We investigated the role of resident memory (Trm) and circulating memory …

Vaccine delivery systems toward lymph nodes

Y Ding, Z Li, A Jaklenec, Q Hu - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Strategies of improving vaccine targeting ability toward lymph nodes have been attracting
considerable interest in recent years, though there are remaining delivery barriers based on …

Both intratumoral regulatory T cell depletion and CTLA-4 antagonism are required for maximum efficacy of anti-CTLA-4 antibodies

BM Lax, JR Palmeri, EA Lutz, A Sheen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Anti-CTLA-4 antibodies have successfully elicited durable tumor regression in the clinic;
however, long-term benefit is limited to a subset of patients for select cancer indications. The …

Nanoparticle-based immunotherapy for cancer

K Shao, S Singha, X Clemente-Casares, S Tsai… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The design of nanovaccines capable of triggering effective antitumor immunity requires an
understanding of how the immune system senses and responds to threats, including …

Hydrogel drug delivery systems for minimally invasive local immunotherapy of cancer

AS Mikhail, R Morhard, M Mauda-Havakuk… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Although systemic immunotherapy has achieved durable responses and improved survival
for certain patients and cancer types, low response rates and immune system-related …