Roles of tumor-associated macrophages in anti-PD-1/PD-L1 immunotherapy for solid cancers

H Zhang, L Liu, J Liu, P Dang, S Hu, W Yuan, Z Sun… - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
In recent years, tumor immunotherapy has made significant progress. However, tumor
immunotherapy, particularly immune checkpoint inhibitors (eg, PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors) …

Microglia: Immune and non-immune functions

K Borst, AA Dumas, M Prinz - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
As resident macrophages of the central nervous system (CNS), microglia are associated
with diverse functions essential to the developing and adult brain during homeostasis and …

Glioma progression is shaped by genetic evolution and microenvironment interactions

FS Varn, KC Johnson, J Martinek, JT Huse… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The factors driving therapy resistance in diffuse glioma remain poorly understood. To identify
treatment-associated cellular and genetic changes, we analyzed RNA and/or DNA …

[HTML][HTML] Myeloid cell-targeted therapies for solid tumours

S Goswami, S Anandhan, D Raychaudhuri… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Myeloid cells are the most abundant immune components of the tumour microenvironment,
where they have a variety of functions, ranging from immunosuppressive to …

Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics: deciphering brain complexity in health and disease

M Piwecka, N Rajewsky, A Rybak-Wolf - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
In the past decade, single-cell technologies have proliferated and improved from their
technically challenging beginnings to become common laboratory methods capable of …

Brain macrophage development, diversity and dysregulation in health and disease

A Silvin, J Qian, F Ginhoux - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Brain macrophages include microglia in the parenchyma, border-associated macrophages
in the meningeal-choroid plexus-perivascular space, and monocyte-derived macrophages …

CD103+ regulatory T cells underlie resistance to radio-immunotherapy and impair CD8+ T cell activation in glioblastoma

L van Hooren, SM Handgraaf, DJ Kloosterman… - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Glioblastomas are aggressive primary brain tumors with an inherent resistance to T cell-
centric immunotherapy due to their low mutational burden and immunosuppressive tumor …

Targeted inducible delivery of immunoactivating cytokines reprograms glioblastoma microenvironment and inhibits growth in mouse models

F Birocchi, M Cusimano, F Rossari, S Beretta… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and lethal brain tumor characterized by
a strongly immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) that represents a barrier also …

Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of the immune cell landscape in the aged mouse brain after ischemic stroke

X Li, J Lyu, R Li, V Jain, Y Shen, Á Del Águila… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background Ischemic stroke is a medical emergency that primarily affects the elderly. A
complex immune response in the post-stroke brain constitutes a key component of stroke …

Tumor-associated microglia and macrophages in the glioblastoma microenvironment and their implications for therapy

RS Andersen, A Anand, DSL Harwood, BW Kristensen - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Patients with glioblastoma—the most frequent and malignant primary brain
tumor—have a poor prognosis with a median survival of less than 15 months. Despite …