Revisiting the role of CD4+ T cells in cancer immunotherapy—new insights into old paradigms

RE Tay, EK Richardson, HC Toh - Cancer gene therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer immunotherapy has revolutionised cancer treatment, with immune checkpoint
blockade (ICB) therapy and adoptive cell therapy (ACT) increasingly becoming standard of …

[HTML][HTML] Dendritic cells and their role in immunotherapy

A Gardner, Á de Mingo Pulido, B Ruffell - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Despite significant advances in the field of cancer immunotherapy, the majority of patients
still do not benefit from treatment and must rely on traditional therapies. Dendritic cells have …

CD4+ T cell help in cancer immunology and immunotherapy

J Borst, T Ahrends, N Bąbała, CJM Melief… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Cancer immunotherapy aims to promote the activity of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) within
a tumour, assist the priming of tumour-specific CTLs in lymphoid organs and establish …

Dendritic cell subsets in T cell programming: location dictates function

SC Eisenbarth - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2019 - nature.com
Dendritic cells (DCs) can be viewed as translators between innate and adaptive immunity.
They integrate signals derived from tissue infection or damage and present processed …

Structure and function of the immune system in the spleen

SM Lewis, A Williams, SC Eisenbarth - Science immunology, 2019 - science.org
The spleen is the largest secondary lymphoid organ in the body and, as such, hosts a wide
range of immunologic functions alongside its roles in hematopoiesis and red blood cell …

T cells in health and disease

L Sun, Y Su, A Jiao, X Wang, B Zhang - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
T cells are crucial for immune functions to maintain health and prevent disease. T cell
development occurs in a stepwise process in the thymus and mainly generates CD4+ and …

LXR signaling controls homeostatic dendritic cell maturation

V Bosteels, S Maréchal, C De Nolf, S Rennen… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Dendritic cells (DCs) mature in an immunogenic or tolerogenic manner depending on the
context in which an antigen is perceived, preserving the balance between immunity and …

Splenic stromal niches in homeostasis and immunity

YO Alexandre, SN Mueller - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
The spleen is a gatekeeper of systemic immunity where immune responses against blood-
borne pathogens are initiated and sustained. Non-haematopoietic stromal cells construct …

The importance of dendritic cells in maintaining immune tolerance

C Audiger, MJ Rahman, TJ Yun, KV Tarbell… - The Journal of …, 2017 - journals.aai.org
Immune tolerance is necessary to prevent the immune system from reacting against self, and
thus to avoid the development of autoimmune diseases. In this review, we discuss key …

T follicular helper cell heterogeneity: time, space, and function

W Song, J Craft - Immunological reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
T follicular helper (Tfh) cells play a crucial role in orchestrating the humoral arm of adaptive
immune responses. Mature Tfh cells localize to follicles in secondary lymphoid organs (SLO …