Therapeutic targets and biomarkers of tumor immunotherapy: response versus non-response

DR Wang, XL Wu, YL Sun - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Cancers are highly complex diseases that are characterized by not only the overgrowth of
malignant cells but also an altered immune response. The inhibition and reprogramming of …

Engineering strategies to enhance oncolytic viruses in cancer immunotherapy

Y Tian, D **e, 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 …

Cross-talk between cancer stem cells and immune cells: potential therapeutic targets in the tumor immune microenvironment

B Wu, X Shi, M Jiang, H Liu - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Ongoing research has revealed that the existence of cancer stem cells (CSCs) is one of the
biggest obstacles in the current cancer therapy. CSCs make an influential function in tumor …

Immunotherapy for glioblastoma: the promise of combination strategies

M Bausart, V Préat, A Malfanti - Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - Springer
Glioblastoma (GBM) treatment has remained almost unchanged for more than 20 years. The
current standard of care involves surgical resection (if possible) followed by concomitant …

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 …

Stem cell programs in cancer initiation, progression, and therapy resistance

T Huang, X Song, D Xu, D Tiek, A Goenka, B Wu… - …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Over the past few decades, substantial evidence has convincingly revealed the existence of
cancer stem cells (CSCs) as a minor subpopulation in cancers, contributing to an aberrantly …

Targeting Treg cells with GITR activation alleviates resistance to immunotherapy in murine glioblastomas

Z Amoozgar, J Kloepper, J Ren, RE Tay… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockers (ICBs) have failed in all phase III glioblastoma (GBM) trials.
Here, we show that regulatory T (Treg) cells play a key role in GBM resistance to ICBs in …

Intratumoral IL-12 delivery empowers CAR-T cell immunotherapy in a pre-clinical model of glioblastoma

G Agliardi, AR Liuzzi, A Hotblack, D De Feo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive form of primary brain
cancer, for which effective therapies are urgently needed. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) …

Macrophage polarization contributes to glioblastoma eradication by combination immunovirotherapy and immune checkpoint blockade

D Saha, RL Martuza, SD Rabkin - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Glioblastoma is an immunosuppressive, fatal brain cancer that contains glioblastoma stem-
like cells (GSCs). Oncolytic herpes simplex virus (oHSV) selectively replicates in cancer …

Oncolytic virus therapy: A new era of cancer treatment at dawn

H Fukuhara, Y Ino, T Todo - Cancer science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Oncolytic virus therapy is perhaps the next major breakthrough in cancer treatment following
the success in immunotherapy using immune checkpoint inhibitors. Oncolytic viruses are …