Role of tumor microenvironment in cancer progression and therapeutic strategy

Q Wang, X Shao, Y Zhang, M Zhu, FXC Wang… - Cancer …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer is now considered a tumor microenvironment (TME) disease, although it was
originally thought to be a cell and gene expression disorder. Over the past 20 years …

Role of the tumor microenvironment in PD-L1/PD-1-mediated tumor immune escape

X Jiang, J Wang, X Deng, F Xiong, J Ge, B Xiang, X Wu… - Molecular cancer, 2019 - Springer
Tumor immune escape is an important strategy of tumor survival. There are many
mechanisms of tumor immune escape, including immunosuppression, which has become a …

Claudin18. 2-specific CAR T cells in gastrointestinal cancers: phase 1 trial interim results

C Qi, J Gong, J Li, D Liu, Y Qin, S Ge, M Zhang… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Despite success in hematologic malignancies, the treatment landscape of chimeric antigen
receptor (CAR) T cell therapy for solid tumors remains limited. Claudin18. 2 (CLDN18. 2) …

Tumor microenvironment in ovarian cancer: function and therapeutic strategy

Y Yang, Y Yang, J Yang, X Zhao, X Wei - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Ovarian cancer is one of the leading causes of death in patients with gynecological
malignancy. Despite optimal cytoreductive surgery and platinum-based chemotherapy …

[HTML][HTML] PD-1 and its ligands are important immune checkpoints in cancer

Y Dong, Q Sun, X Zhang - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Checkpoint programmed death-1 (PD-1)/programmed cell death ligands (PD-Ls)
have been identified as negative immunoregulatory molecules that promote immune …

NK cell-based immunotherapy for cancer

F Fang, W Xiao, Z Tian - Seminars in immunology, 2017 - Elsevier
Natural killer (NK) cells can induce an antigen-independent immune response against
malignant cells. A growing number of scientific reports and clinical studies have shown …

TIGIT marks exhausted T cells, correlates with disease progression, and serves as a target for immune restoration in HIV and SIV infection

GM Chew, T Fujita, GM Webb, BJ Burwitz, HL Wu… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
HIV infection induces phenotypic and functional changes to CD8+ T cells defined by the
coordinated upregulation of a series of negative checkpoint receptors that eventually result …

Improvement of the anticancer efficacy of PD-1/PD-L1 blockade via combination therapy and PD-L1 regulation

M Wu, Q Huang, Y Xie, X Wu, H Ma, Y Zhang… - Journal of hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
Immune checkpoint molecules are promising anticancer targets, among which therapeutic
antibodies targeting the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway have been widely applied to cancer treatment …

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-transduced natural killer cells in tumor immunotherapy

Y Hu, Z Tian, C Zhang - Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, 2018 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are potential effector cells in cell-based cancer immunotherapy,
particularly in the control of hematological malignancies. The chimeric antigen receptor …

TGF-β in radiotherapy: Mechanisms of tumor resistance and normal tissues injury

B Farhood, M Hoseini-Ghahfarokhi, E Motevaseli… - Pharmacological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Emerging evidences show that changes in tumor stroma can adapt cancer cells to
radiotherapy, thereby leading to a reduction in tumor response to treatment. On the other …