Brain immunology and immunotherapy in brain tumours

JH Sampson, MD Gunn, PE Fecci, DM Ashley - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Gliomas, the most common malignant primary brain tumours, remain universally lethal. Yet,
seminal discoveries in the past 5 years have clarified the anatomy, genetics and function of …

CD4 T-cell exhaustion: does it exist and what are its roles in cancer?

AM Miggelbrink, JD Jackson, SJ Lorrey… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
In chronic infections and in cancer, persistent antigen stimulation under suboptimal
conditions can lead to the induction of T-cell exhaustion. Exhausted T cells are …

Sequestration of T cells in bone marrow in the setting of glioblastoma and other intracranial tumors

P Chongsathidkiet, C Jackson, S Koyama, F Loebel… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
T cell dysfunction contributes to tumor immune escape in patients with cancer and is
particularly severe amidst glioblastoma (GBM). Among other defects, T cell lymphopenia is …

The microenvironmental landscape of brain tumors

DF Quail, JA Joyce - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
The brain tumor microenvironment (TME) is emerging as a critical regulator of cancer
progression in primary and metastatic brain malignancies. The unique properties of this …

Molecular mechanisms of treatment resistance in glioblastoma

A Ou, WKA Yung, N Majd - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Glioblastoma is the most common malignant primary brain tumor in adults and is almost
invariably fatal. Despite our growing understanding of the various mechanisms underlying …

T-cell exhaustion signatures vary with tumor type and are severe in glioblastoma

K Woroniecka, P Chongsathidkiet, K Rhodin… - Clinical Cancer …, 2018 - AACR
Purpose: T-cell dysfunction is a hallmark of glioblastoma (GBM). Although anergy and
tolerance have been well characterized, T-cell exhaustion remains relatively unexplored …

Targeting Treg cells with GITR activation alleviates resistance to immunotherapy in murine glioblastomas

Z Amoozgar, J Kloepper, J Ren, RE Tay… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockers (ICBs) have failed in all phase III glioblastoma (GBM) trials.
Here, we show that regulatory T (Treg) cells play a key role in GBM resistance to ICBs in …

Immunotherapy for glioblastoma: current progress and challenges

MW Yu, DF Quail - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma is a highly lethal brain cancer with a median survival rate of less than 15
months when treated with the current standard of care, which consists of surgery …

Nivolumab with or without ipilimumab in patients with recurrent glioblastoma: results from exploratory phase I cohorts of CheckMate 143

A Omuro, G Vlahovic, M Lim, S Sahebjam… - Neuro …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Immunotherapies have demonstrated efficacy across a diverse set of tumors
supporting further evaluation in glioblastoma. The objective of this study was to evaluate the …

Immune microenvironment in glioblastoma subtypes

Z Chen, D Hambardzumyan - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastomas (GBMs) are the most common and aggressive primary brain tumors. Due to
their malignant growth and invasion into the brain parenchyma coupled with resistance to …