Current state of immunotherapy for glioblastoma

M Lim, Y **a, C Bettegowda, M Weller - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2018 - nature.com
Glioma is the most common primary cancer of the central nervous system, and around 50%
of patients present with the most aggressive form of the disease, glioblastoma. Conventional …

CAR T-cell therapy for glioblastoma: recent clinical advances and future challenges

SJ Bagley, AS Desai, GP Linette, CH June… - Neuro …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
In patients with certain hematologic malignancies, the use of autologous T cells genetically
modified to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) has led to unprecedented clinical …

Periostin secreted by glioblastoma stem cells recruits M2 tumour-associated macrophages and promotes malignant growth

W Zhou, SQ Ke, Z Huang, W Flavahan, X Fang… - Nature cell …, 2015 - nature.com
Tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs) are enriched in glioblastoma multiformes (GBMs)
that contain glioma stem cells (GSCs) at the apex of their cellular hierarchy. The correlation …

PD-L1-mediated immunosuppression in glioblastoma is associated with the infiltration and M2-polarization of tumor-associated macrophages

Z Zhu, H Zhang, B Chen, X Liu, S Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
There has been no significant improvements for immune checkpoint inhibitors since its first
use. Tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs) are critical mediators in the PD-1/PD-L1 axis …

Immune evasion strategies of glioblastoma

SM Razavi, KE Lee, BE **, PS Aujla, S Gholamin… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most devastating brain tumor, with associated poor prognosis.
Despite advances in surgery and chemoradiation, the survival of afflicted patients has not …

Glioblastoma-associated microglia and macrophages: targets for therapies to improve prognosis

CC Poon, S Sarkar, VW Yong, JJP Kelly - Brain, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Glioblastoma is the most common and most malignant primary adult human brain tumour.
Diagnosis of glioblastoma carries a dismal prognosis. Treatment resistance and tumour …

The role of microglia in central nervous system immunity and glioma immunology

I Yang, SJ Han, G Kaur, C Crane, AT Parsa - Journal of clinical …, 2010 - Elsevier
The central nervous system (CNS) historically has been considered an immune-privileged
organ, lacking a lymphatic system and shielded from the circulatory system by the blood …

Microglia in brain tumors

MB Graeber, BW Scheithauer, GW Kreutzberg - Glia, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Microglia have long been ignored by neurooncologists. This has changed with the
realization that microglial cells not only occur within and around brain tumors but also …

Distribution and prognostic impact of microglia/macrophage subpopulations in gliomas

PS Zeiner, C Preusse, A Golebiewska, J Zinke… - Brain …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
While the central nervous system is considered an immunoprivileged site and brain tumors
display immunosuppressive features, both innate and adaptive immune responses affect …

Dendritic cell cancer therapy: vaccinating the right patient at the right time

WW Van Willigen, M Bloemendal… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Immune checkpoint inhibitors propelled the field of oncology with clinical responses in many
different tumor types. Superior overall survival over chemotherapy has been reported in …