TGFβ biology in cancer progression and immunotherapy

R Derynck, SJ Turley, RJ Akhurst - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2021 - nature.com
TGFβ signalling has key roles in cancer progression: most carcinoma cells have inactivated
their epithelial antiproliferative response and benefit from increased TGFβ expression and …

CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes in cancer immunotherapy: A review

B Farhood, M Najafi… - Journal of cellular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) are preferred immune cells for targeting cancer.
During cancer progression, CTLs encounter dysfunction and exhaustion due to …

Cancer‐associated fibroblasts in breast cancer: Challenges and opportunities

D Hu, Z Li, B Zheng, X Lin, Y Pan, P Gong… - Cancer …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The tumor microenvironment is proposed to contribute substantially to the progression of
cancers, including breast cancer. Cancer‐associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are the most …

[HTML][HTML] A cellular taxonomy of the bone marrow stroma in homeostasis and leukemia

N Baryawno, D Przybylski, MS Kowalczyk, Y Kfoury… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Stroma is a poorly defined non-parenchymal component of virtually every organ with key
roles in organ development, homeostasis, and repair. Studies of the bone marrow stroma …

Extracellular matrix (ECM) stiffness and degradation as cancer drivers

M Najafi, B Farhood… - Journal of cellular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Alteration in the density and composition of extracellular matrix (ECM) occurs in tumors. The
alterations toward both stiffness and degradation are contributed to tumor growth and …

[HTML][HTML] CAR-T cells hit the tumor microenvironment: strategies to overcome tumor escape

A Rodriguez-Garcia, A Palazon… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies have demonstrated remarkable efficacy for
the treatment of hematological malignancies. However, in patients with solid tumors …

Cancer-associated fibroblasts as key regulators of the breast cancer tumor microenvironment

JM Houthuijzen, J Jonkers - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 2018 - Springer
Tumor cells exist in close proximity with non-malignant cells. Extensive and multilayered
crosstalk between tumor cells and stromal cells tailors the tumor microenvironment (TME) to …

[HTML][HTML] CD26-negative and CD26-positive tissue-resident fibroblasts contribute to functionally distinct CAF subpopulations in breast cancer

JM Houthuijzen, R De Bruijn, E Van Der Burg… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are abundantly present in the microenvironment of
virtually all tumors and strongly impact tumor progression. Despite increasing insight into …

A microfluidics-based scalable approach to generate extracellular vesicles with enhanced therapeutic microRNA loading for intranasal delivery to mouse …

K Wang, US Kumar, N Sadeghipour, TF Massoud… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes and microvesicles derived from different
cell sources, are used as promising nanovesicles for delivering therapeutic microRNAs …

Contribution of regulatory T cells to cancer: A review

M Najafi, B Farhood… - Journal of cellular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) represent a low number of T‐cell population under normal
conditions, and they play key roles for maintaining immune system in homeostasis. The …