Spheroid culture of mesenchymal stem cells

Z Cesarz, K Tamama - Stem cells international, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Compared with traditional 2D adherent cell culture, 3D spheroidal cell aggregates, or
spheroids, are regarded as more physiological, and this technique has been exploited in the …

Targeting IL-10 family cytokines for the treatment of human diseases

X Wang, K Wong, W Ouyang… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Members of the interleukin (IL)-10 family of cytokines play important roles in regulating
immune responses during host defense but also in autoimmune disorders, inflammatory …

Interleukin-10 and related cytokines and receptors

S Pestka, CD Krause, D Sarkar, MR Walter… - Annu. Rev …, 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The Class 2 α-helical cytokines consist of interleukin-10 (IL-10), IL-19, IL-20, IL-22,
IL-24 (Mda-7), and IL-26, interferons (IFN-α,-β,-ε,-κ,-ω,-δ,-τ, and-γ) and interferon-like …

Gene therapies for cancer: strategies, challenges and successes

SK Das, ME Menezes, S Bhatia… - Journal of cellular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Gene therapy, which involves replacement of a defective gene with a functional, healthy
copy of that gene, is a potentially beneficial cancer treatment approach particularly over …

Class II cytokine receptors and their ligands: key antiviral and inflammatory modulators

JC Renauld - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2003 - nature.com
Class II cytokine receptors were originally defined on the basis of sequence homologies in
the extracellular domains of receptors for interferons (IFNs) and interleukin-10 (IL-10), and …

T helper 2 cell–directed immunotherapy eliminates precancerous skin lesions

T Oka, SS Smith, HG Son, T Lee, VS Oliver-Garcia… - The Journal of Clinical …, 2025 - jci.org
The continuous rise in skin cancer incidence highlights an imperative for improved skin
cancer prevention. Topical calcipotriol-plus–5-fluorouracil (calcipotriol-plus–5-FU) …

Interleukin (IL)‐19, IL‐20 and IL‐24 are produced by and act on keratinocytes and are distinct from classical ILs

S Kunz, K Wolk, E Witte, K Witte… - Experimental …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Due to their structural similarity, interleukin (IL)‐19, IL‐20, IL‐22, IL‐24 and IL‐26 were
combined with IL‐10 in the so‐called IL‐10 family. To expand the knowledge on IL‐19, IL …

Is mda-7/IL-24 a “Magic Bullet” for Cancer?

PB Fisher - Cancer research, 2005 - AACR
The “holy grail” of cancer therapy is to identify and exploit genetic elements and signal
transduction pathways capable of selectively destroying tumor cells without eliciting harmful …

Inhibition of endogenous reverse transcriptase antagonizes human tumor growth

I Sciamanna, M Landriscina, C Pittoggi, M Quirino… - Oncogene, 2005 - nature.com
Undifferentiated cells and embryos express high levels of endogenous non-telomerase
reverse transcriptase (RT) of retroposon/retroviral origin. We previously found that RT …

MDA-7/IL-24: multifunctional cancer killing cytokine

ME Menezes, S Bhatia, P Bhoopathi, SK Das… - Anticancer Genes, 2014 - Springer
First identified almost two decades ago as a novel gene differentially expressed in human
melanoma cells induced to terminally differentiate, MDA-7/IL-24 has since shown great …