The immune contexture and Immunoscore in cancer prognosis and therapeutic efficacy

D Bruni, HK Angell, J Galon - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The international American Joint Committee on Cancer/Union for International
Cancer Control (AJCC/UICC) tumour-node-metastasis (TNM) staging system provides the …

[HTML][HTML] Immune checkpoint therapy for solid tumours: clinical dilemmas and future trends

Q Sun, Z Hong, C Zhang, L Wang, Z Han… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICBs), in addition to targeting CTLA-4, PD-1, and PD-
L1, novel targeting LAG-3 drugs have also been approved in clinical application. With the …

Innate immunity and cancer pathophysiology

L Maiorino, J Daßler-Plenker, L Sun… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Chronic inflammation increases the risk of several cancers, including gastric, colon, and
hepatic cancers. Conversely, tumors, similar to tissue injury, trigger an inflammatory …

[HTML][HTML] Blood–brain barrier permeable nano immunoconjugates induce local immune responses for glioma therapy

A Galstyan, JL Markman, ES Shatalova… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Brain glioma treatment with checkpoint inhibitor antibodies to cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-
associated antigen 4 (a-CTLA-4) and programmed cell death-1 (a-PD-1) was largely …

[HTML][HTML] Development of allogeneic HSC-engineered iNKT cells for off-the-shelf cancer immunotherapy

YR Li, Y Zhou, YJ Kim, Y Zhu, F Ma, J Yu, YC Wang… - Cell Reports …, 2021 - cell.com
Cell-based immunotherapy has become the new-generation cancer medicine, and" off-the-
shelf" cell products that can be manufactured at large scale and distributed readily to treat …

[HTML][HTML] The current landscape of NKT cell immunotherapy and the hills ahead

A Nelson, JD Lukacs, B Johnston - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Natural killer T (NKT) cells are a subset of lipid-reactive T cells that
enhance anti-tumor immunity. While preclinical studies have shown NKT cell …

[HTML][HTML] Methionine consumption by cancer cells drives a progressive upregulation of PD-1 expression in CD4 T cells

M Pandit, YS Kil, JH Ahn, RH Pokhrel, Y Gu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1), expressed on tumor-infiltrating T cells, is a T cell
exhaustion marker. The mechanisms underlying PD-1 upregulation in CD4 T cells remain …

Roles of NKT cells in cancer immunotherapy

EA Bae, H Seo, IK Kim, I Jeon, CY Kang - Archives of pharmacal research, 2019 - Springer
Cancer immunotherapy has emerged as an effective therapeutic strategy to treat cancer.
Among diverse immune populations, invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells have shown …

Broadening the message: a nanovaccine co-loaded with messenger RNA and α-GalCer induces antitumor immunity through conventional and natural killer T cells

R Verbeke, I Lentacker, K Breckpot, J Janssens… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Messenger RNA encoding tumor antigens has the potential to evoke effective antitumor
immunity. This study reports on a nanoparticle platform, named mRNA Galsomes, that …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer stem cell marker DCLK1 correlates with tumorigenic immune infiltrates in the colon and gastric adenocarcinoma microenvironments

X Wu, D Qu, N Weygant, J Peng, CW Houchen - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Immunotherapy that has proven efficacy in several solid cancers plays a partial role in
improving clinical outcomes of advanced gastrointestinal (GI) cancers. There is an unmet …