The liver cancer immune microenvironment: Therapeutic implications for hepatocellular carcinoma

R Donne, A Lujambio - Hepatology, 2023 - journals.lww.com
The liver is the sixth most common site of primary cancer in humans and the fourth leading
cause of cancer‐related death in the world. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) accounts for …

Challenges of combination therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors for hepatocellular carcinoma

AL Cheng, C Hsu, SL Chan, SP Choo, M Kudo - Journal of hepatology, 2020 - Elsevier
Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy targeting anti-programmed cell death-1 (anti-PD-
1) or its ligand (anti-PD-L1) is the backbone of numerous combination regimens aimed at …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting response to immunotherapy in gastric cancer via multi-dimensional analyses of the tumour immune microenvironment

Y Chen, K Jia, Y Sun, C Zhang, Y Li, L Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A single biomarker is not adequate to identify patients with gastric cancer (GC) who have the
potential to benefit from anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy, presumably owing to the complexity of the …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell RNA sequencing shows the immunosuppressive landscape and tumor heterogeneity of HBV-associated hepatocellular carcinoma

DWH Ho, YM Tsui, LK Chan, KMF Sze, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Interaction between tumor cells and immune cells in the tumor microenvironment is
important in cancer development. Immune cells interact with the tumor cells to shape this …

Revealing the transcriptional heterogeneity of organ‐specific metastasis in human gastric cancer using single‐cell RNA sequencing

H Jiang, D Yu, P Yang, R Guo, M Kong… - Clinical and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Deciphering intra‐and inter‐tumoural heterogeneity is essential for
understanding the biology of gastric cancer (GC) and its metastasis and identifying effective …

[HTML][HTML] Depletion of BATF in CAR-T cells enhances antitumor activity by inducing resistance against exhaustion and formation of central memory cells

X Zhang, C Zhang, M Qiao, C Cheng, N Tang, S Lu… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has limited efficacy against solid tumors, and
one major challenge is T cell exhaustion. To address this challenge, we performed a …

[HTML][HTML] PD1Hi CD8+ T cells correlate with exhausted signature and poor clinical outcome in hepatocellular carcinoma

J Ma, B Zheng, S Goswami, L Meng, D Zhang… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2019 - Springer
Background CD8+ T cells differentiate into exhausted status within tumors, including
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which constitutes a solid barrier to effective anti-tumor …

T-cell exhaustion and residency dynamics inform clinical outcomes in hepatocellular carcinoma

M Barsch, H Salié, AE Schlaak, Z Zhang, M Hess… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Despite recent translation of immunotherapies into clinical practice, the
immunobiology of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), in particular the role and clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Current status of sorafenib nanoparticle delivery systems in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

FH Kong, QF Ye, XY Miao, X Liu, SQ Huang, L Xiong… - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of liver cancer and one of the
leading causes of cancer-related death worldwide. Advanced HCC displays strong …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor methionine metabolism drives T-cell exhaustion in hepatocellular carcinoma

MH Hung, JS Lee, C Ma, LP Diggs, S Heinrich… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
T-cell exhaustion denotes a hypofunctional state of T lymphocytes commonly found in
cancer, but how tumor cells drive T-cell exhaustion remains elusive. Here, we find T-cell …