Chimeric antigen receptor T-cells: an overview of concepts, applications, limitations, and proposed solutions

A Alnefaie, S Albogami, Y Asiri, T Ahmad… - … in bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Adaptive immunity, orchestrated by B-cells and T-cells, plays a crucial role in protecting the
body from pathogenic invaders and can be used as tools to enhance the body's defense …

CD8+ T-Cell Response to HIV Infection in the Era of Antiretroviral Therapy

F Perdomo-Celis, NA Taborda, MT Rugeles - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Although the combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) has decreased the deaths associated
with the immune deficiency acquired syndrome (AIDS), non-AIDS conditions have emerged …

Cytolytic CD8+ T cells infiltrate germinal centers to limit ongoing HIV replication in spontaneous controller lymph nodes

DR Collins, J Hitschfel, JM Urbach… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Follicular CD8+ T cells (fCD8) mediate surveillance in lymph node (LN) germinal centers
against lymphotropic infections and cancers, but the precise mechanisms by which these …

CXCR1 expression to improve anti-cancer efficacy of intravenously injected CAR-NK cells in mice with peritoneal xenografts

YY Ng, JCK Tay, S Wang - Molecular Therapy-Oncolytics, 2020 - cell.com
One reason underlying the failure of current chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) immune
therapy to treat solid tumors adequately is insufficient tumor infiltration of CAR immune cells …

[HTML][HTML] In vivo killing of primary HIV-infected cells by peripheral-injected early memory–enriched anti-HIV duoCAR T cells

K Anthony-Gonda, A Ray, H Su, Y Wang, Y Xiong… - JCI insight, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
HIV-specific chimeric antigen receptor–T cell (CAR T cell) therapies are candidates to
functionally cure HIV infection in people with HIV (PWH) by eliminating reactivated HIV …

Advances in developing CAR T-cell therapy for HIV cure

J Qi, C Ding, X Jiang, Y Gao - Frontiers in Immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), which is caused by HIV infection, is an
epidemic disease that has killed millions of people in the last several decades. Although …

A portrait of CXCR5+ follicular cytotoxic CD8+ T cells

D Yu, L Ye - Trends in immunology, 2018 - cell.com
CD8+ T cells differentiate into multiple effector and memory subsets to carry out immune
clearance of infected and cancerous cells and provide long-term protection. Recent …

Approval of first CAR-Ts: have we solved all hurdles for ATMPs?

D Seimetz, K Heller, J Richter - Cell Medicine, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
T cells are known as the most potent killer cells of the immune system, designed by nature to
prevent unwanted challenges. The first class of therapeutic products harnessing the power …

Influence of culture conditions on ex vivo expansion of T lymphocytes and their function for therapy: Current insights and open questions

H Sudarsanam, R Buhmann… - Frontiers in Bioengineering …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Ex vivo expansion of T lymphocytes is a central process in the generation of cellular
therapies targeted at tumors and other disease-relevant structures, which currently cannot …

Engineering CAR T cells to target the HIV reservoir

W Mu, MA Carrillo, SG Kitchen - Frontiers in cellular and infection …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The HIV reservoir remains to be a difficult barrier to overcome in order to achieve a
therapeutic cure for HIV. Several strategies have been developed to purge the reservoir …