Immunogenic cell death activates the tumor immune microenvironment to boost the immunotherapy efficiency

Z Li, X Lai, S Fu, L Ren, H Cai, H Zhang, Z Gu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tumor immunotherapy is only effective in a fraction of patients due to a low response rate
and severe side effects, and these challenges of immunotherapy in clinics can be addressed …

Harnessing the potential of hydrogels for advanced therapeutic applications: Current achievements and future directions

P Lu, D Ruan, M Huang, M Tian, K Zhu… - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
The applications of hydrogels have expanded significantly due to their versatile, highly
tunable properties and breakthroughs in biomaterial technologies. In this review, we cover …

Multifaceted carbonized metal–organic frameworks synergize with immune checkpoint inhibitors for precision and augmented cuproptosis cancer therapy

C Zhao, X Tang, X Chen, Z Jiang - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
The discovery of cuproptosis, a copper-dependent mechanism of programmed cell death,
has provided a way for cancer treatment. However, cuproptosis has inherent limitations …

Nanoparticles with ultrasound-induced afterglow luminescence for tumour-specific theranostics

C Xu, J Huang, Y Jiang, S He, C Zhang… - Nature Biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
Molecular imaging via afterglow luminescence minimizes tissue autofluorescence and
increases the signal-to-noise ratio. However, the induction of afterglow requires the prior …

Biomaterials tools to modulate the tumour microenvironment in immunotherapy

Y Chao, Z Liu - Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer immunotherapies, such as immune checkpoint blockade and chimeric antigen
receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, have transformed clinical oncology. However, limited patient …

A photo-triggered self-accelerated nanoplatform for multifunctional image-guided combination cancer immunotherapy

X Kang, Y Zhang, J Song, L Wang, W Li, J Qi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Precise and efficient image-guided immunotherapy holds great promise for cancer
treatment. Here, we report a self-accelerated nanoplatform combining an aggregation …

A polymeric hydrogel to eliminate programmed death-ligand 1 for enhanced tumor radio-immunotherapy

W Shen, P Pei, C Zhang, J Li, X Han, T Liu, X Shi… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) is a specialized shield on tumor cells that evades the
immune system. Even inhibited by PD-L1 antibodies, a cycling process constantly transports …

Translational applications of hydrogels

S Correa, AK Grosskopf, H Lopez Hernandez… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Advances in hydrogel technology have unlocked unique and valuable capabilities that are
being applied to a diverse set of translational applications. Hydrogels perform functions …

Metal-organic framework nanoagent induces cuproptosis for effective immunotherapy of malignant glioblastoma

QX Huang, JL Liang, QW Chen, XK **, MT Niu… - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma (GBM) is an aggressive brain cancer with an immunosuppressive tumor
microenvironment. Here, a copper-based nanoplatform BSO-CAT@ MOF-199@ DDM …

Structurally dynamic hydrogels for biomedical applications: pursuing a fine balance between macroscopic stability and microscopic dynamics

K Zhang, Q Feng, Z Fang, L Gu, L Bian - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Owing to their unique chemical and physical properties, hydrogels are attracting increasing
attention in both basic and translational biomedical studies. Although the classical hydrogels …