What is cancer metabolism?

LWS Finley - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The uptake and metabolism of nutrients support fundamental cellular process from
bioenergetics to biomass production and cell fate regulation. While many studies of cell …

Tumor abnormality-oriented nanomedicine design

Q Zhou, J Xiang, N Qiu, Y Wang, Y Piao, S Shao… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Anticancer nanomedicines have been proven effective in mitigating the side effects of
chemotherapeutic drugs. However, challenges remain in augmenting their therapeutic …

Lactic acid and lactate: revisiting the physiological roles in the tumor microenvironment

P Apostolova, EL Pearce - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Lactic acid production has been regarded as a mechanism by which malignant cells escape
immunosurveillance. Recent technological advances in mass spectrometry and the use of …

Reprogramming the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment through nanomedicine: an immunometabolism perspective

J Liu, Y Bai, Y Li, X Li, K Luo - EBioMedicine, 2024 - thelancet.com
Increasing evidence indicates that immunotherapy is hindered by a hostile tumor
microenvironment (TME) featured with deprivation of critical nutrients and pooling of …

Beggars banquet: Metabolism in the tumor immune microenvironment and cancer therapy

W Zou, DR Green - Cell Metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
Metabolic programming in the tumor microenvironment (TME) alters tumor immunity and
immunotherapeutic response in tumor-bearing mice and patients with cancer. Here, we …

Challenges in developing personalized neoantigen cancer vaccines

PD Katsikis, KJ Ishii, C Schliehe - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
The recent success of cancer immunotherapies has highlighted the benefit of harnessing the
immune system for cancer treatment. Vaccines have a long history of promoting immunity to …

The hallmarks of cancer immune evasion

C Galassi, TA Chan, I Vitale, L Galluzzi - Cancer Cell, 2024 - cell.com
According to the widely accepted" three Es" model, the host immune system eliminates
malignant cell precursors and contains microscopic neoplasms in a dynamic equilibrium …

T cell dysfunction and therapeutic intervention in cancer

CC Zebley, D Zehn, S Gottschalk, H Chi - Nature Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Recent advances in immunotherapy have affirmed the curative potential of T cell-based
approaches for treating relapsed and refractory cancers. However, the therapeutic efficacy is …

Metabolism and epigenetics at the heart of T cell function

L Soriano-Baguet, D Brenner - Trends in immunology, 2023 - cell.com
T cell subsets adapt and rewire their metabolism according to their functions and
surrounding microenvironment. Whereas naive T cells rely on mitochondrial metabolic …

Metabolic dependencies and targets in ovarian cancer

Y Zhang, Y Wang, G Zhao, S Orsulic, D Matei - Pharmacology & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Reprogramming of cellular metabolism is a hallmark of cancer. Cancer cells undergo
metabolic adaptations to maintain tumorigenicity and survive under the attack of immune …