Cancer nanomedicine: progress, challenges and opportunities

J Shi, PW Kantoff, R Wooster, OC Farokhzad - Nature reviews cancer, 2017 - nature.com
The intrinsic limits of conventional cancer therapies prompted the development and
application of various nanotechnologies for more effective and safer cancer treatment …

Fluorescent chemical probes for accurate tumor diagnosis and targeting therapy

M Gao, F Yu, C Lv, J Choo, L Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Surgical resection of solid tumors is currently the gold standard and preferred therapeutic
strategy for cancer. Chemotherapy drugs also make a significant contribution by inhibiting …

Cytotoxic T cells are able to efficiently eliminate cancer cells by additive cytotoxicity

B Weigelin, AT den Boer, E Wagena, K Broen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Lethal hit delivery by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) towards B lymphoma cells occurs as a
binary,“yes/no” process. In non-hematologic solid tumors, however, CTL often fail to kill …

Successful anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy requires T cell-dendritic cell crosstalk involving the cytokines IFN-γ and IL-12

CS Garris, SP Arlauckas, RH Kohler, MP Trefny… - Immunity, 2018 - cell.com
Anti-PD-1 immune checkpoint blockers can induce sustained clinical responses in cancer
but how they function in vivo remains incompletely understood. Here, we combined intravital …

TLR7/8-agonist-loaded nanoparticles promote the polarization of tumour-associated macrophages to enhance cancer immunotherapy

CB Rodell, SP Arlauckas, MF Cuccarese… - Nature biomedical …, 2018 - nature.com
Tumour-associated macrophages are abundant in many cancers, and often display an
immune-suppressive M2-like phenotype that fosters tumour growth and promotes resistance …

In vivo imaging reveals a tumor-associated macrophage–mediated resistance pathway in anti–PD-1 therapy

SP Arlauckas, CS Garris, RH Kohler… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) targeting the immune checkpoint anti–programmed cell
death protein 1 (aPD-1) have demonstrated impressive benefits for the treatment of some …

An overview of nanoparticles commonly used in fluorescent bioimaging

OS Wolfbeis - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
This article gives an overview of the various kinds of nanoparticles (NPs) that are widely
used for purposes of fluorescent imaging, mainly of cells and tissues. Following an …

Copper‐free click chemistry: applications in drug delivery, cell Tracking, and tissue engineering

HY Yoon, D Lee, DK Lim, H Koo, K Kim - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Traditionally, organic chemical reactions require organic solvents, toxic catalysts, heat, or
high pressure. However, copper‐free click chemistry has been shown to have favorable …

[HTML][HTML] Arg1 expression defines immunosuppressive subsets of tumor-associated macrophages

SP Arlauckas, SB Garren, CS Garris, RH Kohler… - Theranostics, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) have attracted attention as they can modulate key
cancer-related activities, yet TAM represent a heterogenous group of cells that remain …

Tumour-associated macrophages act as a slow-release reservoir of nano-therapeutic Pt (IV) pro-drug

MA Miller, YR Zheng, S Gadde, C Pfirschke… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Therapeutic nanoparticles (TNPs) aim to deliver drugs more safely and effectively to
cancers, yet clinical results have been unpredictable owing to limited in vivo understanding …