Intratumoral approaches for the treatment of melanoma

PK Bommareddy, AW Silk, HL Kaufman - The Cancer Journal, 2017 - journals.lww.com
There have been significant advances in the immunotherapy of melanoma over the last
decade. The tumor microenvironment is now known to promote an immune-suppressive …

Oral administration of soluble β‐glucans extracted from Grifola frondosa induces systemic antitumor immune response and decreases immunosuppression in tumor …

Y Masuda, H Inoue, H Ohta, A Miyake… - … Journal of Cancer, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Maitake D (MD)‐Fraction is a highly purified soluble β‐glucan derived from Grifola frondosa
(an oriental edible mushroom). Intraperitoneal (ip) injection of MD‐Fraction has been …

Higher numbers of T-bet+ intratumoral lymphoid cells correlate with better survival in gastric cancer

L Chen, X Zheng, Y Shen, Y Zhu, Q Li, J Chen… - Cancer Immunology …, 2013 - Springer
In the present study, we studied the expression of T-bet, a key marker for type 1 immune
responses, within the tumor microenvironment of gastric cancer, and analyzed its …

The dark side of dendritic cells: development and exploitation of tolerogenic activity that favor tumor outgrowth and immune escape

B Seliger, C Massa - Frontiers in immunology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Dendritic cells (DC) play a central role in the regulation of the immune responses by
providing the information needed to decide between tolerance, ignorance, or active …

T-cell-mediated tumor immune surveillance and expression of B7 co-inhibitory molecules in cancers of the upper gastrointestinal tract

B Lu, L Chen, L Liu, Y Zhu, C Wu, J Jiang… - Immunologic …, 2011 - Springer
Tumorigenesis can induce adaptive T-cell-mediated immune responses against malignant
cells. Such cellular immune responses are actively suppressed by cancer cells via …

Combined vaccine+ axitinib therapy yields superior antitumor efficacy in a murine melanoma model

A Bose, DB Lowe, A Rao, WJ Storkus - Melanoma research, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Axitinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor of vascular endothelial growth factor receptors, has
demonstrated modest efficacy when applied as a single agent in the setting of advanced …

Soluble β-glucan from Grifola frondosa induces tumor regression in synergy with TLR9 agonist via dendritic cell-mediated immunity

Y Masuda, D Nawa, Y Nakayama… - Journal of Leucocyte …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The maturation of dendritic cells into more-immunostimulatory dendritic cells by stimulation
with different combinations of immunologic agents is expected to provide efficient, adoptive …

Extranodal induction of therapeutic immunity in the tumor microenvironment after intratumoral delivery of Tbet gene-modified dendritic cells

L Chen, JL Taylor, NC Sabins, DB Lowe, Y Qu… - Cancer gene …, 2013 - nature.com
Murine dendritic cells (DC) transduced to express the Type-1 transactivator T-bet (ie mDC.
Tbet) and delivered intratumorally as a therapy are superior to control wild-type DC in …

Intratumoral delivery of mTORC2-deficient dendritic cells inhibits B16 melanoma growth by promoting CD8+ effector T cell responses

D Raïch-Regué, KP Fabian, AR Watson… - …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Dendritic cells (DC) play a pivotal role in the induction and regulation of immune responses.
In cancer, DC-based vaccines have proven to be safe and to elicit protective and therapeutic …

Impact of combination immunochemotherapies on progression of 4NQO-induced murine oral squamous cell carcinoma

S Ludwig, CS Hong, BM Razzo, KPL Fabian… - Cancer Immunology …, 2019 - Springer
Advanced oral squamous cell carcinomas (OSCC) have limited therapeutic options.
Although immune therapies are emerging as a potentially effective alternative or adjunct to …