Engineering strategies to enhance oncolytic viruses in cancer immunotherapy

Y Tian, D Xie, L Yang - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are emerging as potentially useful platforms in treatment methods for
patients with tumors. They preferentially target and kill tumor cells, leaving healthy cells …

Localized interleukin-12 for cancer immunotherapy

KG Nguyen, MR Vrabel, SM Mantooth… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Interleukin-12 (IL-12) is a potent, pro-inflammatory type 1 cytokine that has long been
studied as a potential immunotherapy for cancer. Unfortunately, IL-12's remarkable …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering interferons and interleukins for cancer immunotherapy

PG Holder, SA Lim, CS Huang, P Sharma… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cytokines are a class of potent immunoregulatory proteins that are secreted in response to
various stimuli and act locally to regulate many aspects of human physiology and disease …

Novel strategies exploiting interleukin-12 in cancer immunotherapy

A Cirella, C Luri-Rey, CA Di Trani, A Teijeira… - Pharmacology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Interleukin-12 is considered a potent agent to enhance antitumor immune responses. It
belongs to a family of heterodimeric cytokines with key roles in the up-regulation and down …

New insights into IL-12-mediated tumor suppression

S Tugues, SH Burkhard, I Ohs, M Vrohlings… - Cell Death & …, 2015 - nature.com
During the past two decades, interleukin-12 (IL-12) has emerged as one of the most potent
cytokines in mediating antitumor activity in a variety of preclinical models. Through …

Liposome-based drug co-delivery systems in cancer cells

SZ Vahed, R Salehi, S Davaran, S Sharifi - Materials Science and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Combination therapy and nanotechnology offer a promising therapeutic method in cancer
treatment. By improving drug's pharmacokinetics, nanoparticulate systems increase the …

[HTML][HTML] Delivering safer immunotherapies for cancer

L Milling, Y Zhang, DJ Irvine - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Cancer immunotherapy is now a powerful clinical reality, with a steady progression of new
drug approvals and a massive pipeline of additional treatments in clinical and preclinical …

A tumor-specific pro-IL-12 activates preexisting cytotoxic T cells to control established tumors

D Xue, B Moon, J Liao, J Guo, Z Zou, Y Han… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
It is a challenge to effectively reactivate preexisting tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs)
without causing severe toxicity. Interleukin-12 (IL-12) can potently activate lymphocytes, but …

CD4+ T-Cell Help in the Tumor Milieu Is Required for Recruitment and Cytolytic Function of CD8+ T Lymphocytes

R Bos, LA Sherman - Cancer research, 2010 - AACR
Abstract CD4 help for CD8+ T lymphocytes prevents tolerance and promotes the survival of
effector and memory CD8+ T cells. Here, we describe additional helper functions that …

Armored CAR T-cells: utilizing cytokines and pro-inflammatory ligands to enhance CAR T-cell anti-tumour efficacy

OO Yeku, RJ Brentjens - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2016 - portlandpress.com
Chimaeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells are T-cells that have been genetically modified to
express an artificial construct consisting of a synthetic T-cell receptor (TCR) targeted to a …