Tumor microenvironment: barrier or opportunity towards effective cancer therapy

A Tiwari, R Trivedi, SY Lin - Journal of biomedical science, 2022 - Springer
Tumor microenvironment (TME) is a specialized ecosystem of host components, designed
by tumor cells for successful development and metastasis of tumor. With the advent of 3D …

The evasion mechanisms of cancer immunity and drug intervention in the tumor microenvironment

SK Kim, SW Cho - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recently, in the field of cancer treatment, the paradigm has changed to immunotherapy that
activates the immune system to induce cancer attacks. Among them, immune checkpoint …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer chemotherapy and beyond: Current status, drug candidates, associated risks and progress in targeted therapeutics

U Anand, A Dey, AKS Chandel, R Sanyal, A Mishra… - Genes & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer is an abnormal state of cells where they undergo uncontrolled proliferation and
produce aggressive malignancies that causes millions of deaths every year. With the new …

Cancer immunotherapy update: FDA-approved checkpoint inhibitors and companion diagnostics

JD Twomey, B Zhang - The AAPS journal, 2021 - Springer
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are considered a new standard-of-care across many
cancer indications. This review provides an update on ICIs approved by the Food and Drug …

YTHDF2 orchestrates tumor-associated macrophage reprogramming and controls antitumor immunity through CD8+ T cells

S Ma, B Sun, S Duan, J Han, T Barr, J Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) playing a key role in shaping the tumor
microenvironment (TME), the mechanisms by which TAMs influence the TME and contribute …

A protein-based cGAS-STING nanoagonist enhances T cell-mediated anti-tumor immune responses

X Wang, Y Liu, C Xue, Y Hu, Y Zhao, K Cai, M Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract cGAS-STING pathway is a key DNA-sensing machinery and emerges as a
promising target to overcome the immunoresistance of solid tumors. Here we describe a …

A peritumorally injected immunomodulating adjuvant elicits robust and safe metalloimmunotherapy against solid tumors

L Zhang, J Zhao, X Hu, C Wang, Y Jia, C Zhu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Clinical immunotherapy of solid tumors elicits durable responses only in a minority of
patients, largely due to the highly immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) …

Therapeutic implications of tumor microenvironment in lung cancer: focus on immune checkpoint blockade

C Genova, C Dellepiane, P Carrega… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In the last decade, the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been
revolutionized by the introduction of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) directed against …

Lactate-lactylation hands between metabolic reprogramming and immunosuppression

L Chen, L Huang, Y Gu, W Cang, P Sun… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Immune evasion and metabolic reprogramming are two fundamental hallmarks of cancer.
Interestingly, lactate closely links them together. However, lactate has long been recognized …

Lactic acid and an acidic tumor microenvironment suppress anticancer immunity

JX Wang, SYC Choi, X Niu, N Kang, H Xue… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Immune evasion and altered metabolism, where glucose utilization is diverted to increased
lactic acid production, are two fundamental hallmarks of cancer. Although lactic acid has …