Exosome-mediated delivery of gene vectors for gene therapy

L Duan, L Xu, X Xu, Z Qin, X Zhou, Y Xiao, Y Liang… - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Gene vectors are nucleic acids that carry genetic materials or gene editing devices into cells
to exert the sustained production of therapeutic proteins or to correct erroneous genes of the …

The approved gene therapy drugs worldwide: from 1998 to 2019

CC Ma, ZL Wang, T Xu, ZY He, YQ Wei - Biotechnology advances, 2020 - Elsevier
With the improvement of gene vectors, the rise of chimeric antigen receptor T cell
immunotherapy and breakthroughs in the genome editing technology, gene therapy had …

IL-7 and CCL19 expression in CAR-T cells improves immune cell infiltration and CAR-T cell survival in the tumor

K Adachi, Y Kano, T Nagai, N Okuyama… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Infiltration, accumulation, and survival of chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cells in solid
tumors is crucial for tumor clearance. We engineered CAR-T cells to express interleukin (IL) …

The future of stem cell therapies for Parkinson disease

M Parmar, S Grealish, C Henchcliffe - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Cell-replacement therapies have long been an attractive prospect for treating Parkinson
disease. However, the outcomes of fetal tissue-derived cell transplants in individuals with …

Gene therapy returns to centre stage

L Naldini - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Recent clinical trials of gene therapy have shown remarkable therapeutic benefits and an
excellent safety record. They provide evidence for the long-sought promise of gene therapy …

Chimeric antigen receptor expressing natural killer cells for the immunotherapy of cancer

RS Mehta, K Rezvani - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Adoptive cell therapy has emerged as a powerful treatment for advanced cancers resistant
to conventional agents. Most notable are the remarkable responses seen in patients …

Connexins in cancer: bridging the gap to the clinic

T Aasen, E Leithe, SV Graham, P Kameritsch… - Oncogene, 2019 - nature.com
Gap junctions comprise arrays of intercellular channels formed by connexin proteins and
provide for the direct communication between adjacent cells. This type of intercellular …

Adoptive cell therapy targeting neoantigens: a frontier for cancer research

Z Wang, YJ Cao - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) is a kind of immunotherapy in which T cells are genetically
modified to express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) or T cell receptor (TCR), and ACT …

Killers 2.0: NK cell therapies at the forefront of cancer control

JJ Hodgins, ST Khan, MM Park… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Natural killer (NK) cells are innate cytotoxic lymphocytes involved in the surveillance and
elimination of cancer. As we have learned more and more about the mechanisms NK cells …

Targeting T cell malignancies using CAR-based immunotherapy: challenges and potential solutions

LC Fleischer, HT Spencer, SS Raikar - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2019 - Springer
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has been successful in treating B cell
malignancies in clinical trials; however, fewer studies have evaluated CAR T cell therapy for …