Hypoxic microenvironment in cancer: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic interventions

Z Chen, F Han, Y Du, H Shi, W Zhou - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
Having a hypoxic microenvironment is a common and salient feature of most solid tumors.
Hypoxia has a profound effect on the biological behavior and malignant phenotype of …

The evasion mechanisms of cancer immunity and drug intervention in the tumor microenvironment

SK Kim, SW Cho - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recently, in the field of cancer treatment, the paradigm has changed to immunotherapy that
activates the immune system to induce cancer attacks. Among them, immune checkpoint …

Hypoxia signaling in human health and diseases: implications and prospects for therapeutics

Z Luo, M Tian, G Yang, Q Tan, Y Chen, G Li… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Molecular oxygen (O2) is essential for most biological reactions in mammalian cells. When
the intracellular oxygen content decreases, it is called hypoxia. The process of hypoxia is …

Therapeutic targeting of the hypoxic tumour microenvironment

DC Singleton, A Macann, WR Wilson - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2021 - nature.com
Hypoxia is prevalent in human tumours and contributes to microenvironments that shape
cancer evolution and adversely affect therapeutic outcomes. Historically, two different …

Emerging evidence for adapting radiotherapy to immunotherapy

L Galluzzi, MJ Aryankalayil, CN Coleman… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2023 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has revolutionized the clinical management of many malignancies but is
infrequently associated with durable objective responses when used as a standalone …

Metabolic barriers to cancer immunotherapy

K DePeaux, GM Delgoffe - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
Several non-redundant features of the tumour microenvironment facilitate
immunosuppression and limit anticancer immune responses. These include physical …

The role of hypoxia in the tumor microenvironment and development of cancer stem cell: a novel approach to developing treatment

A Emami Nejad, S Najafgholian, A Rostami… - Cancer Cell …, 2021 - Springer
Hypoxia is a common feature of solid tumors, and develops because of the rapid growth of
the tumor that outstrips the oxygen supply, and impaired blood flow due to the formation of …

CD8+ T cells in the cancer-immunity cycle

JR Giles, AM Globig, SM Kaech, EJ Wherry - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
CD8+ T cells are end effectors of cancer immunity. Most forms of effective cancer
immunotherapy involve CD8+ T cell effector function. Here, we review the current …

Macrophages and metabolism in the tumor microenvironment

I Vitale, G Manic, LM Coussens, G Kroemer, L Galluzzi - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) constitute a plastic and heterogeneous cell
population of the tumor microenvironment (TME) that can account for up to 50% of some …

Hypoxia as a driver of resistance to immunotherapy

J Kopecka, IC Salaroglio, E Perez-Ruiz… - Drug Resistance …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hypoxia, a hallmark of solid tumors, determines the selection of invasive and aggressive
malignant clones displaying resistance to radiotherapy, conventional chemotherapy or …