Oncolytic viruses and immune checkpoint inhibitors: preclinical developments to clinical trials

JK Hwang, JW Hong, CO Yun - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Immuno-oncology (IO) has been an active area of oncology research. Following US FDA
approval of the first immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI), ipilimumab (human IgG1 k anti-CTLA …

Vesicular stomatitis virus as a flexible platform for oncolytic virotherapy against cancer

E Hastie, VZ Grdzelishvili - Journal of General Virology, 2012 - microbiologyresearch.org
Oncolytic virus (OV) therapy is an emerging anti-cancer approach that utilizes viruses to
preferentially infect and kill cancer cells, while not harming healthy cells. Vesicular stomatitis …

[HTML][HTML] Oncolytic virotherapy, updates and future directions

C Fountzilas, S Patel, D Mahalingam - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are viral strains that can infect and kill malignant cells while spare
their normal counterparts. OVs can access cells through binding to receptors on their surface …

Understanding and altering cell tropism of vesicular stomatitis virus

E Hastie, M Cataldi, I Marriott, VZ Grdzelishvili - Virus research, 2013 - Elsevier
Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is a prototypic nonsegmented negative-strand RNA virus.
VSV's broad cell tropism makes it a popular model virus for many basic research …

Oncotargeting by vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV): advances in cancer therapy

S Bishnoi, R Tiwari, S Gupta, SN Byrareddy, D Nayak - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
Modern oncotherapy approaches are based on inducing controlled apoptosis in tumor cells.
Although a number of apoptosis-induction approaches are available, site-specific delivery of …

[HTML][HTML] Oncolytic virus-based hepatocellular carcinoma treatment: Current status, intravenous delivery strategies, and emerging combination therapeutic solutions

X Li, X Sun, B Wang, Y Li, J Tong - Asian journal of pharmaceutical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Current treatments for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have limited success in
improving patients' quality of life and prolonging life expectancy. The clinical need for more …

Immunovirotherapy based on recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus: where are we?

Y Zhang, BM Nagalo - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), a negative-strand RNA virus of the Vesiculovirus genus, has
demonstrated encouraging anti-neoplastic activity across multiple human cancer types. VSV …

[HTML][HTML] Resistance of pancreatic cancer cells to oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus: role of type I interferon signaling

M Moerdyk-Schauwecker, NR Shah, AM Murphy… - Virology, 2013 - Elsevier
Oncolytic virus (OV) therapy takes advantage of common cancer characteristics, such as
defective type I interferon (IFN) signaling, to preferentially infect and kill cancer cells with …

Engineering oncolytic viruses to exploit tumor specific defects in innate immune signaling pathways

S Naik, SJ Russell - Expert opinion on biological therapy, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Background: The use of oncolytic viruses for treatment of cancer marks a significant
alteration in the battle between host and virus. Viruses are confronted by cellular innate …

Some attenuated variants of vesicular stomatitis virus show enhanced oncolytic activity against human glioblastoma cells relative to normal brain cells

G Wollmann, V Rogulin, I Simon, JK Rose… - Journal of …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) has been shown in laboratory studies to be effective against
a variety of tumors, including malignant brain tumors. However, attenuation of VSV may be …