Immunostimulation with chemotherapy in the era of immune checkpoint inhibitors

L Galluzzi, J Humeau, A Buqué, L Zitvogel… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Conventional chemotherapeutics have been developed into clinically useful agents based
on their ability to preferentially kill malignant cells, generally owing to their elevated …

[HTML][HTML] Consensus guidelines for the definition, detection and interpretation of immunogenic cell death

L Galluzzi, I Vitale, S Warren, S Adjemian… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cells succumbing to stress via regulated cell death (RCD) can initiate an adaptive immune
response associated with immunological memory, provided they display sufficient …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of immunogenic cell death and its relevance for cancer therapy

J Fucikova, O Kepp, L Kasikova, G Petroni… - Cell death & …, 2020 - nature.com
Chemotherapy, radiation therapy, as well as targeted anticancer agents can induce clinically
relevant tumor-targeting immune responses, which critically rely on the antigenicity of …

[HTML][HTML] Immunotherapy for ovarian cancer: adjuvant, combination, and neoadjuvant

C Yang, BR Xia, ZC Zhang, YJ Zhang, G Lou… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic malignancy. Surgery and chemotherapy are
the primary treatments for ovarian cancer; however, patients often succumb to recurrence …

Natural products and their derivatives: Promising modulators of tumor immunotherapy

LJ Deng, M Qi, N Li, YH Lei, DM Zhang… - Journal of Leucocyte …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
A wealth of evidence supports the role of tumor immunotherapy as a vital therapeutic option
in cancer. In recent decades, accumulated studies have revealed the anticancer activities of …

Trial watch: chemotherapy-induced immunogenic cell death in immuno-oncology

I Vanmeerbeek, J Sprooten, D De Ruysscher… - …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The term 'immunogenic cell death'(ICD) denotes an immunologically unique type of
regulated cell death that enables, rather than suppresses, T cell-driven immune responses …

[HTML][HTML] Current approaches for combination therapy of cancer: the role of immunogenic cell death

Z Asadzadeh, E Safarzadeh, S Safaei, A Baradaran… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cell death resistance is a key feature of tumor cells. One of the main anticancer therapies is
increasing the susceptibility of cells to death. Cancer cells have developed a capability of …

[HTML][HTML] Biological and pharmacological effects of synthetic saponins

YP Juang, PH Liang - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Saponins are amphiphilic molecules consisting of carbohydrate and either triterpenoid or
steroid aglycone moieties and are noted for their multiple biological activities—Fungicidal …

PlatinER: A highly potent anticancer platinum (II) complex that induces endoplasmic reticulum stress driven immunogenic cell death

MJR Tham, MV Babak, WH Ang - … Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Immunogenic cell death (ICD) is a rare immunostimulatory form of cell death that can
improve the clinical outcomes of chemo‐immunotherapeutic combination regimens through …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering nanomedicines through boosting immunogenic cell death for improved cancer immunotherapy

J Gao, W Wang, Q Pei, MS Lord, H Yu - Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, 2020 - nature.com
Current cancer immunotherapy has limited response rates in a large variety of solid tumors
partly due to the low immunogenicity of the tumor cells and the immunosuppressive tumor …