Navigating CAR-T cells through the solid-tumour microenvironment

AJ Hou, LC Chen, YY Chen - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2021 - nature.com
The adoptive transfer of T cells that are engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors
(CARs) has shown remarkable success in treating B cell malignancies but only limited …

[HTML][HTML] Novel CAR T therapy is a ray of hope in the treatment of seriously ill AML patients

F Marofi, HS Rahman, ZMJ Al-Obaidi, AT Jalil… - Stem Cell Research & …, 2021 - Springer
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a serious, life-threatening, and hardly curable
hematological malignancy that affects the myeloid cell progenies and challenges patients of …

Enhancing anti-tumour efficacy with immunotherapy combinations

F Meric-Bernstam, J Larkin, J Tabernero, C Bonini - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Several tumour types are responsive to immunotherapy, as shown by regulatory approvals
for immune checkpoint inhibitors. However, many patients either do not respond or do not …

[HTML][HTML] Current progress in CAR-T cell therapy for solid tumors

S Ma, X Li, X Wang, L Cheng, Z Li… - … journal of biological …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer immunotherapy by chimeric antigen receptor-modified T (CAR-T) cells has shown
exhilarative clinical efficacy for hematological malignancies. Recently two CAR-T cell based …

[HTML][HTML] Human CAR T cells with cell-intrinsic PD-1 checkpoint blockade resist tumor-mediated inhibition

L Cherkassky, A Morello… - The Journal of …, 2016 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Following immune attack, solid tumors upregulate coinhibitory ligands that bind to inhibitory
receptors on T cells. This adaptive resistance compromises the efficacy of chimeric antigen …

[HTML][HTML] Next generation chimeric antigen receptor T cells: safety strategies to overcome toxicity

S Yu, M Yi, S Qin, K Wu - Molecular cancer, 2019 - Springer
Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy is an emerging and effective cancer
immunotherapy. Especially in hematological malignancies, CAR-T cells have achieved …

[HTML][HTML] Development and clinical translation of approved gene therapy products for genetic disorders

A Shahryari, M Saghaeian Jazi, S Mohammadi… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The field of gene therapy is striving more than ever to define a path to the clinic and the
market. Twenty gene therapy products have already been approved and over two thousand …

[HTML][HTML] Immune reconstitution after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

J Ogonek, M Kralj Juric, S Ghimire… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The timely reconstitution and regain of function of a donor-derived immune system is of
utmost importance for the recovery and long-term survival of patients after allogeneic …

CRISPR/Cas9 β-globin gene targeting in human haematopoietic stem cells

DP Dever, RO Bak, A Reinisch, J Camarena… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The β-haemoglobinopathies, such as sickle cell disease and β-thalassaemia, are caused by
mutations in the β-globin (HBB) gene and affect millions of people worldwide. Ex vivo gene …

[HTML][HTML] Engineered TCR-T cell immunotherapy in anticancer precision medicine: pros and cons

Q Zhao, Y Jiang, S Xiang, PJ Kaboli, J Shen… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This review provides insight into the role of engineered T-cell receptors (TCRs) in
immunotherapy. Novel approaches have been developed to boost anticancer immune …