Context-dependent roles of complement in cancer

LT Roumenina, MV Daugan, F Petitprez… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The tumour microenvironment (TME) highly influences the growth and spread of tumours,
thus impacting the patient's clinical outcome. In this context, the complement system plays a …

Complementing the cancer-immunity cycle

R Pio, D Ajona, S Ortiz-Espinosa, A Mantovani… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Reactivation of cytotoxic CD8+ T-cell responses has set a new direction for cancer
immunotherapy. Neutralizing antibodies targeting immune checkpoint programmed cell …

Inter-cellular CRISPR screens reveal regulators of cancer cell phagocytosis

RA Kamber, Y Nishiga, B Morton, AM Banuelos… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Monoclonal antibody therapies targeting tumour antigens drive cancer cell elimination in
large part by triggering macrophage phagocytosis of cancer cells,,,,,–. However, cancer cells …

The role of CXCL16 in the pathogenesis of cancer and other diseases

J Korbecki, K Bajdak-Rusinek, P Kupnicka… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
CXCL16 is a chemotactic cytokine belonging to the α-chemokine subfamily. It plays a
significant role in the progression of cancer, as well as the course of atherosclerosis, renal …

CXC chemokine ligand 16: a Swiss army knife chemokine in cancer

AG Shabgah, MT Qasim, SM Mostafavi… - Expert Reviews in …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Today, cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Lately, cytokine and
chemokine imbalances have gained attention amongst different involved pathways in …

Complement system: promoter or suppressor of cancer progression?

M Revel, MV Daugan, C Sautés-Fridman, WH Fridman… - Antibodies, 2020 - mdpi.com
Constituent of innate immunity, complement is present in the tumor microenvironment. The
functions of complement include clearance of pathogens and maintenance of homeostasis …

Short-term starvation reduces IGF-1 levels to sensitize lung tumors to PD-1 immune checkpoint blockade

D Ajona, S Ortiz-Espinosa, T Lozano, F Exposito… - Nature Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Harnessing the immune system by blocking the programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1)
pathway has been a major breakthrough in non-small-cell lung cancer treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Incidence, prognostic factors, and a nomogram of lung cancer with bone metastasis at initial diagnosis: a population-based study

XQ Zheng, JF Huang, JL Lin, L Chen… - … lung cancer research, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Bone is one of the common metastatic sites of lung cancer, and its prognosis is
not optimistic. We performed a study to evaluate the incidence, survival, and prognostic …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of the pleural microenvironment niche and cancer transition using single-cell RNA sequencing in EGFR-mutated lung cancer

YY Wu, YL Hsu, YC Huang, YC Su, KL Wu… - Theranostics, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Lung cancer is associated with a high mortality rate and often complicated with
malignant pleural effusion (MPE), which has a very poor clinical outcome with a short life …

“Complimenting the complement”: mechanistic insights and opportunities for therapeutics in hepatocellular carcinoma

A Malik, U Thanekar, S Amarachintha, R Mourya… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary malignancy of the liver and a
leading cause of death in the US and worldwide. HCC remains a global health problem and …