Cancer stemness meets immunity: from mechanism to therapy

P Chen, WH Hsu, J Han, Y Xia, RA DePinho - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are self-renewing cells that facilitate tumor initiation, promote
metastasis, and enhance cancer therapy resistance. Transcriptomic analyses across many …

Monocyte-neutrophil entanglement in glioblastoma

D Friedmann-Morvinski… - The Journal of clinical …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most belligerent and frequent brain tumor in adults. Research
over the past two decades has provided increased knowledge of the genomic and molecular …

Hypoxic niches attract and sequester tumor-associated macrophages and cytotoxic T cells and reprogram them for immunosuppression

A Sattiraju, S Kang, B Giotti, Z Chen, VJ Marallano… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Glioblastoma (GBM), a highly lethal brain cancer, is notorious for immunosuppression, but
the mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we documented a temporospatial patterning of tumor …

[HTML][HTML] Phagocytic function of tumor-associated macrophages as a key determinant of tumor progression control: a review

M Lecoultre, V Dutoit, PR Walker - Journal for immunotherapy of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tumor-associated macrophage (TAM) phagocytic activity is emerging as a new mechanism
to harness for cancer treatment. Currently, many approaches are investigated at the …

CSF1R inhibitors are emerging immunotherapeutic drugs for cancer treatment

J Wen, S Wang, R Guo, D Liu - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract ABSTRACT: Colony-Stimulating Factor-1 Receptor (CSF1R) is a receptor tyrosine
kinase that controls the differentiation and maintenance of most tissue-resident …

Losartan controls immune checkpoint blocker-induced edema and improves survival in glioblastoma mouse models

M Datta, S Chatterjee, EM Perez… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Immune checkpoint blockers (ICBs) have failed in all phase III glioblastoma trials. Here, we
found that ICBs induce cerebral edema in some patients and mice with glioblastoma …

Tumor-associated microglia and macrophages in the glioblastoma microenvironment and their implications for therapy

RS Andersen, A Anand, DSL Harwood, BW Kristensen - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Patients with glioblastoma—the most frequent and malignant primary brain
tumor—have a poor prognosis with a median survival of less than 15 months. Despite …

Challenges in glioblastoma immunotherapy: mechanisms of resistance and therapeutic approaches to overcome them

KJ Habashy, R Mansour, C Moussalem… - British journal of …, 2022 - nature.com
Glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive primary malignant brain tumour. The
prognosis of patients with glioblastoma is poor, and their overall survival averages at 1 year …

Circadian regulator CLOCK drives immunosuppression in glioblastoma

W Xuan, WH Hsu, F Khan, M Dunterman, L Pang… - Cancer immunology …, 2022 - AACR
The symbiotic interactions between cancer stem cells and the tumor microenvironment
(TME) are critical for tumor progression. However, the molecular mechanism underlying this …

Tumor-associated macrophage-related strategies for glioma immunotherapy

F Tang, Y Wang, Y Zeng, A Xiao, A Tong… - NPJ precision oncology, 2023 - nature.com
High-grade glioma is one of the deadliest primary tumors of the central nervous system.
Despite the many novel immunotherapies currently in development, it has been difficult to …