The current landscape of CAR T-cell therapy for solid tumors: Mechanisms, research progress, challenges, and counterstrategies

A Daei Sorkhabi, L Mohamed Khosroshahi… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The successful outcomes of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in treating
hematologic cancers have increased the previously unprecedented excitement to use this …

Driving CAR T-cells forward

HJ Jackson, S Rafiq, RJ Brentjens - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2016 - nature.com
The engineered expression of chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) on the surface of T cells
enables the redirection of T-cell specificity. Early clinical trials using CAR T cells for the …

Human chimeric antigen receptor macrophages for cancer immunotherapy

M Klichinsky, M Ruella, O Shestova, XM Lu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has shown promise in hematologic
malignancies, but its application to solid tumors has been challenging,,–. Given the unique …

Glypican‐3: a promising biomarker for hepatocellular carcinoma diagnosis and treatment

F Zhou, W Shang, X Yu, J Tian - Medicinal research reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Liver cancer is the second leading cause of cancer‐related deaths, and hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type. Therefore, molecular targets are urgently …

PKM2 isoform-specific deletion reveals a differential requirement for pyruvate kinase in tumor cells

WJ Israelsen, TL Dayton, SM Davidson, BP Fiske… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
The pyruvate kinase M2 isoform (PKM2) is expressed in cancer and plays a role in
regulating anabolic metabolism. To determine whether PKM2 is required for tumor formation …

Mouse models of hepatocellular carcinoma: an overview and highlights for immunotherapy research

ZJ Brown, B Heinrich, TF Greten - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Mouse models are the basis of preclinical and translational research in hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC). Multiple methods exist to induce tumour formation in mice, including …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence of the alternative lengthening of telomeres telomere maintenance mechanism in human cancer subtypes

CM Heaphy, AP Subhawong, SM Hong… - The American journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Approximately 10% to 15% of human cancers lack detectable telomerase activity, and a
subset of these maintain telomere lengths by the telomerase-independent telomere …

Development of T cells redirected to glypican-3 for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

H Gao, K Li, H Tu, X Pan, H Jiang, B Shi, J Kong… - Clinical Cancer …, 2014 - AACR
Purpose: The aim of our study is to elucidate whether T cells expressing GPC3-targeted
chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) can efficiently eliminate GPC3-positive HCC cells and their …

Disruption of PD-1 enhanced the anti-tumor activity of chimeric antigen receptor T cells against hepatocellular carcinoma

X Guo, H Jiang, B Shi, M Zhou, H Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Cancer immunotherapy has made unprecedented breakthrough in the fields of chimeric
antigen receptor-redirected T (CAR T) cell therapy and immune modulation. Combination of …

Persistent polyfunctional chimeric antigen receptor T cells that target glypican 3 eliminate orthotopic hepatocellular carcinomas in mice

D Li, N Li, YF Zhang, H Fu, M Feng, D Schneider, L Su… - Gastroenterology, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and Aims Glypican 3 (GPC3) is an oncofetal antigen involved in Wnt-dependent
cell proliferation that is highly expressed in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We …