The foundations of immune checkpoint blockade and the ipilimumab approval decennial

AJ Korman, SC Garrett-Thomson… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer immunity, and the potential for cancer immunotherapy, have been topics of scientific
discussion and experimentation for over a hundred years. Several successful cancer …

Epigenetic regulation of T cell exhaustion

JA Belk, B Daniel, AT Satpathy - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic antigen stimulation during viral infections and cancer can lead to T cell exhaustion,
which is characterized by reduced effector function and proliferation, and the expression of …

Safety and immunogenicity of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in HIV infection: a single-arm substudy of a phase 2/3 clinical trial

J Frater, KJ Ewer, A Ogbe, M Pace, S Adele… - The lancet HIV, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Data on vaccine immunogenicity against SARS-CoV-2 are needed for the 40
million people globally living with HIV who might have less functional immunity and more …

Kaposi sarcoma

E Cesarman, B Damania, SE Krown, J Martin… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2019 - nature.com
Kaposi sarcoma (KS) gained public attention as an AIDS-defining malignancy; its
appearance on the skin was a highly stigmatizing sign of HIV infection during the height of …

A transcriptionally and functionally distinct PD-1+ CD8+ T cell pool with predictive potential in non-small-cell lung cancer treated with PD-1 blockade

DS Thommen, VH Koelzer, P Herzig, A Roller… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Evidence from mouse chronic viral infection models suggests that CD8+ T cell subsets
characterized by distinct expression levels of the receptor PD-1 diverge in their state of …

T cell dysfunction in cancer

DS Thommen, TN Schumacher - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
Therapeutic reinvigoration of tumor-specific T cells has greatly improved clinical outcome in
cancer. Nevertheless, many patients still do not achieve durable benefit. Recent evidence …

T‐cell exhaustion in HIV infection

C Fenwick, V Joo, P Jacquier, A Noto… - Immunological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The T‐cell response is central in the adaptive immune‐mediated elimination of pathogen‐
infected and/or cancer cells. This activated T‐cell response can inflict an overwhelming …

Immune activation, inflammation, and non-AIDS co-morbidities in HIV-infected patients under long-term ART

S Zicari, L Sessa, N Cotugno, A Ruggiero, E Morrocchi… - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Despite effective antiretroviral therapy (ART), people living with HIV (PLWH) still present
persistent chronic immune activation and inflammation. This condition is the result of several …

Immune checkpoint blockade in infectious diseases

MN Wykes, SR Lewin - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2018 - nature.com
The upregulation of immune checkpoint molecules, such as programmed cell death protein
1 (PD1) and cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA4), on immune cells occurs during acute …

T cell exhaustion

A Baessler, DAA Vignali - Annual Review of Immunology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
T cell responses must be balanced to ensure adequate protection against malignant
transformation and an array of pathogens while also limiting damage to healthy cells and …