Injectable hydrogels for personalized cancer immunotherapies

N Mohaghegh, A Ahari, F Zehtabi, C Buttles, S Davani… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
The field of cancer immunotherapy has shown significant growth, and researchers are now
focusing on effective strategies to enhance and prolong local immunomodulation. Injectable …

[HTML][HTML] The critical role of Toll-like receptor-mediated signaling in cancer immunotherapy

X Chen, Y Zhang, Y Fu - Medicine in Drug Discovery, 2022 - Elsevier
Toll-like receptors (TLR) play a dual regulatory role in the tumor microenvironment (TME).
TLR agonists (TLRa) elicit both innate and adaptive immune responses to achieve anti …

Nanodiscs: Game changer nano-therapeutics and structural biology tools

AO Elzoghby, O Samir, A Soliman, S Solomevich, M Yu… - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, engineering biocompatible HDL nanodiscs has garnered a great interest
with wide applications for for both drug delivery and structural biology. In this review, we …

A nanovaccine for enhancing cellular immunity via cytosolic co-delivery of antigen and polyIC RNA

CS Carson, KW Becker, KM Garland… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Traditional approaches to cancer vaccines elicit weak CD8+ T cell responses and have
largely failed to meet clinical expectations. This is in part due to inefficient antigen cross …

Liposomal celecoxib combined with dendritic cell therapy enhances antitumor efficacy in melanoma

V Jahani, M Yazdani, A Badiee, MR Jaafari… - Journal of Controlled …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer vaccine efficacy is limited by the immunosuppressive nature of the tumor
microenvironment created by inflammation, immune inhibitory factors, and regulatory T cells …

Erythrocyte membrane-camouflaged DNA-functionalized upconversion nanoparticles for tumor-targeted chemotherapy and immunotherapy

Q Kou, Y Huang, Y Su, L Lu, X Li, H Jiang, R Huang… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
A synergistic combination of treatment with immunogenic cell death (ICD) inducers and
immunoadjuvants may be a practical way to boost the anticancer response and successfully …

Targeting tumor heterogeneity with neoantigen-based cancer vaccines

S Pounraj, S Chen, L Ma, R Mazzieri, R Dolcetti… - Cancer Research, 2024 - AACR
Neoantigen-based cancer vaccines have emerged as a promising immunotherapeutic
approach to treat cancer. Nevertheless, the high degree of heterogeneity in tumors poses a …

Designing nanodiscs as versatile platforms for on-demand therapy

Q Mu, H Deng, X An, G Liu, C Liu - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Nowadays, there has been an increasing utilization of nanomedicines for disease treatment.
Nanodiscs (NDs) have emerged as a novel platform technology that garners significant …

Formulation of simvastatin within high density lipoprotein enables potent tumour radiosensitisation

P Dehghankelishadi, MF Maritz, N Dmochowska… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Preclinical, clinical and epidemiologic studies have established the potent anticancer and
radiosensitisation effects of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins). However, the low …

Simvastatin-Loaded Polymeric Nanoparticles: Targeting Inflammatory Macrophages for Local Adipose Tissue Browning in Obesity Treatment

N Mohaghegh, A Ahari, C Buttles, S Davani, H Hoang… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Obesity is defined as chronic, low-grade inflammation within specific tissues. Given the
escalating prevalence of obesity among individuals of all ages, obesity has reached …