Cancer stem cell–immune cell crosstalk in tumour progression

D Bayik, JD Lathia - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Cellular heterogeneity and an immunosuppressive tumour microenvironment are
independent yet synergistic drivers of tumour progression and underlie therapeutic …

Targeting cancer stem cells for reversing therapy resistance: mechanism, signaling, and prospective agents

HM Zhou, JG Zhang, X Zhang, Q Li - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) show a self-renewal capacity and differentiation potential that
contribute to tumor progression and therapy resistance. However, the underlying processes …

Cross-talk between cancer stem cells and immune cells: potential therapeutic targets in the tumor immune microenvironment

B Wu, X Shi, M Jiang, H Liu - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Ongoing research has revealed that the existence of cancer stem cells (CSCs) is one of the
biggest obstacles in the current cancer therapy. CSCs make an influential function in tumor …

Cancer stemness meets immunity: from mechanism to therapy

P Chen, WH Hsu, J Han, Y Xia, RA DePinho - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are self-renewing cells that facilitate tumor initiation, promote
metastasis, and enhance cancer therapy resistance. Transcriptomic analyses across many …

Osteopontin mediates glioblastoma-associated macrophage infiltration and is a potential therapeutic target

J Wei, A Marisetty, B Schrand… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Glioblastoma is highly enriched with macrophages, and osteopontin (OPN) expression
levels correlate with glioma grade and the degree of macrophage infiltration; thus, we …

Brain tumor microenvironment and host state: implications for immunotherapy

W Tomaszewski, L Sanchez-Perez, TF Gajewski… - Clinical Cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a highly lethal brain tumor with poor responses to immunotherapies
that have been successful in more immunogenic cancers with less immunosuppressive …

Challenges and potential of PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint blockade immunotherapy for glioblastoma

X Wang, G Guo, H Guan, Y Yu, J Lu, J Yu - Journal of Experimental & …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint blockades have achieved significant progress in several
kinds of tumours. Pembrolizumab, which targets PD-1, has been approved as a first-line …

Glioblastoma stem cell-derived exosomes induce M2 macrophages and PD-L1 expression on human monocytes

K Gabrusiewicz, X Li, J Wei, Y Hashimoto… - …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Exosomes can mediate a dynamic method of communication between malignancies,
including those sequestered in the central nervous system and the immune system. We …

Chlorotoxin-directed CAR T cells for specific and effective targeting of glioblastoma

D Wang, R Starr, WC Chang, B Aguilar… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Although chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have demonstrated signs of antitumor
activity against glioblastoma (GBM), tumor heterogeneity remains a critical challenge. To …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer stem cells in immunoregulation and bypassing anti-checkpoint therapy

E Rouzbahani, J Majidpoor, S Najafi… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Tumor microenvironment (TME) takes critical roles in tumor resistance to immune checkpoint
inhibitors (ICIs) including anti-programmed death-1 (PD-1) or anti-programmed death-ligand …