Architects of immunity: How dendritic cells shape CD8+ T cell fate in cancer

V Bhandarkar, T Dinter, S Spranger - Science Immunology, 2025 - science.org
Immune responses against cancer are dominated by T cell exhaustion and dysfunction.
Recent advances have underscored the critical role of early priming interactions in …

Advancing non-small cell lung cancer treatment: the power of combination immunotherapies

Y Wu, G Yu, K **, J Qian - Frontiers in Immunology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains an unsolved challenge in oncology, signifying
a substantial global health burden. While considerable progress has been made in recent …

Cytokines in cancer

CT Kureshi, SK Dougan - Cancer Cell, 2025 - cell.com
Cytokines are proteins used by immune cells to communicate with each other and with cells
in their environment. The pleiotropic effects of cytokine networks are determined by which …

Lung cancer–intrinsic SOX2 expression mediates resistance to checkpoint blockade therapy by inducing Treg cell–dependent CD8+ T-cell exclusion

E Torres-Mejia, S Weng, CA Whittaker… - Cancer Immunology …, 2025 - aacrjournals.org
Tumor cell–intrinsic signaling pathways can drastically affect the tumor immune
microenvironment, promoting tumor progression and resistance to immunotherapy by …

[HTML][HTML] Albumin-based strategies to effectively prolong the circulation half-life of small immunomodulatory payloads in cancer therapy

S Linciano, E Vigolo, A Rosato, Y Kumada… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Serum albumin (SA) enhances pharmacokinetic properties of small
immunomodulatory payloads (IMMs).•SA can traffic efficiently to the lymphatics and thus …

Investigating nano-sized tumor-derived extracellular vesicles in enhancing anti-PD-1 immunotherapy

H Abouali, M Przedborski, M Kohandel, M Poudineh - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Anti-PD1 immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has shown promising results for treating
several aggressive cancers, enhancing patient survival rates. The variability in clinical …

Current status of cytokine-induced killer cells and combination regimens in breast cancer

Y Jiang, J Qiu, N Ye, Y Xu - Frontiers in Immunology, 2025 - frontiersin.org
Breast cancer remains a significant health challenge worldwide, with substantial efforts
aimed at understanding its pathogenesis, biological characteristics, and clinical triggers …

[HTML][HTML] Efficacy of Anti-Cancer Immune Responses Elicited Using Tumor-Targeted IL-2 Cytokine and Its Derivatives in Combined Preclinical Therapies

S Balkhi, G Bilato, ADL Barbaro, P Orecchia… - Vaccines, 2025 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Effective cancer therapies must address the tumor microenvironment (TME), a complex
network of tumor cells and stromal components, including endothelial, immune, and …

Identification of key genes and biological pathways in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using bioinformatics and next generation sequencing data analysis

B Vastrad, C Vastrad - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Identification of accurate biomarkers is still particularly urgent for improving the poor survival
of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. In this investigation, we aimed to …