Strategies to therapeutically modulate cytokine action

WJ Leonard, JX Lin - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Cytokines are secreted or membrane-presented molecules that mediate broad cellular
functions, including development, differentiation, growth and survival. Accordingly, the …

A systematic review of interleukin-2-based immunotherapies in clinical trials for cancer and autoimmune diseases

ME Raeber, D Sahin, U Karakus, O Boyman - EBioMedicine, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background The cytokine interleukin-2 (IL-2) can stimulate both effector immune cells and
regulatory T (Treg) cells. The ability of selectively engaging either of these effects has …

Investigating immune and non-immune cell interactions in head and neck tumors by single-cell RNA sequencing

CHL Kürten, A Kulkarni, AR Cillo, PM Santos… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is characterized by complex relations
between stromal, epithelial, and immune cells within the tumor microenvironment (TME). To …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering interferons and interleukins for cancer immunotherapy

PG Holder, SA Lim, CS Huang, P Sharma… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cytokines are a class of potent immunoregulatory proteins that are secreted in response to
various stimuli and act locally to regulate many aspects of human physiology and disease …

Interleukin-2–based therapies in cancer

ME Raeber, D Sahin, O Boyman - Science Translational Medicine, 2022 - science.org
Molecular insights into the mechanism of beneficial and adverse effects of interleukin-2 (IL-
2) have resulted in the development of improved IL-2 formulations with IL-2 receptor bias …

Novel systemic treatment modalities including immunotherapy and molecular targeted therapy for recurrent and metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

S Ghosh, PA Shah, FM Johnson - International journal of molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) are the sixth most common cancers
worldwide. More than half of patients with HNSCC eventually experience disease …

Targeted immunotherapy against distinct cancer-associated fibroblasts overcomes treatment resistance in refractory HER2+ breast tumors

EI Rivas, J Linares, M Zwick, A Gómez-Llonin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
About 50% of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)+ breast cancer patients do
not benefit from HER2-targeted therapy and almost 20% of them relapse after treatment …

A CAR enhancer increases the activity and persistence of CAR T cells

T Rakhshandehroo, SR Mantri, H Moravej… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Although chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies have demonstrated promising
clinical outcomes, durable remissions remain limited. To extend the efficacy of CAR T cells …

Biomaterials to enhance antigen-specific T cell expansion for cancer immunotherapy

A Isser, NK Livingston, JP Schneck - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
T cells are often referred to as the 'guided missiles' of our immune system because of their
capacity to traffic to and accumulate at sites of infection or disease, destroy infected or …

Frontiers in cancer immunotherapy—a symposium report

J Cable, B Greenbaum, D Pe'er… - Annals of the New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer immunotherapy has dramatically changed the approach to cancer treatment. The
aim of targeting the immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells has afforded …