Immune cells within the tumor microenvironment: Biological functions and roles in cancer immunotherapy

X Lei, Y Lei, JK Li, WX Du, RG Li, J Yang, J Li, F Li… - Cancer letters, 2020 - Elsevier
The immune cells within the tumor microenvironment (TME) play important roles in
tumorigenesis. It has been known that these tumor associated immune cells may possess …

Myeloid-derived suppressor cells as a therapeutic target for cancer

AMK Law, F Valdes-Mora, D Gallego-Ortega - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The emergence of immunotherapy has been an astounding breakthrough in cancer
treatments. In particular, immune checkpoint inhibitors, targeting PD-1 and CTLA-4, have …

Single-cell RNA sequencing analysis: a step-by-step overview

S Slovin, A Carissimo, F Panariello, A Grimaldi… - RNA …, 2021 - Springer
Thanks to innovative sample-preparation and sequencing technologies, gene expression in
individual cells can now be measured for thousands of cells in a single experiment. Since its …

Tumor functional heterogeneity unraveled by scRNA-seq technologies

L González-Silva, L Quevedo, I Varela - Trends in cancer, 2020 - cell.com
Effective cancer treatment has been precluded by the presence of various forms of
intratumoral complexity that drive treatment resistance and metastasis. Recent single-cell …

High-throughput transcriptome profiling in drug and biomarker discovery

X Yang, L Kui, M Tang, D Li, K Wei, W Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The development of new drugs is multidisciplinary and systematic work. High-throughput
techniques based on “-omics” have driven the discovery of biomarkers in diseases and …

Harnessing the potential of CAR-T cell therapy: progress, challenges, and future directions in hematological and solid tumor treatments

G Dagar, A Gupta, T Masoodi, S Nisar, M Merhi… - Journal of translational …, 2023 - Springer
Traditional cancer treatments use nonspecific drugs and monoclonal antibodies to target
tumor cells. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy, however, leverages the immune …

Droplet-based single cell RNAseq tools: a practical guide

R Salomon, D Kaczorowski, F Valdes-Mora… - Lab on a Chip, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Droplet based scRNA-seq systems such as Drop-seq, inDrop and Chromium 10X have
been the catalyst for the wide adoption of high-throughput scRNA-seq technologies in the …

Improved survival analysis by learning shared genomic information from pan-cancer data

S Kim, K Kim, J Choe, I Lee, J Kang - Bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Recent advances in deep learning have offered solutions to many biomedical
tasks. However, there remains a challenge in applying deep learning to survival analysis …

Single-Cell Analysis in Immuno-Oncology

MI Christodoulou, A Zaravinos - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The complexity of the cellular and non-cellular milieu surrounding human tumors plays a
decisive role in the course and outcome of disease. The high variability in the distribution of …

The current landscape of single-cell transcriptomics for cancer immunotherapy

P Guruprasad, YG Lee, KH Kim, M Ruella - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - rupress.org
Immunotherapies such as immune checkpoint blockade and adoptive cell transfer have
revolutionized cancer treatment, but further progress is hindered by our limited …