Immune checkpoint blockade in glioblastoma: from tumor heterogeneity to personalized treatment

VA Arrieta, C Dmello, DJ McGrail, DJ Brat… - The Journal of clinical …, 2023 - jci.org
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has revolutionized modern cancer therapy, arousing
great interest in the neuro-oncology community. While several reports show that subsets of …

Role of the microenvironment in glioma pathogenesis

MA Jayaram, JJ Phillips - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Gliomas are a diverse group of primary central nervous system tumors that affect both
children and adults. Recent studies have revealed a dynamic cross talk that occurs between …

Ultrasound-mediated delivery of doxorubicin to the brain results in immune modulation and improved responses to PD-1 blockade in gliomas

VA Arrieta, A Gould, KS Kim, KJ Habashy… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Given the marginal penetration of most drugs across the blood-brain barrier, the efficacy of
various agents remains limited for glioblastoma (GBM). Here we employ low-intensity pulsed …

[HTML][HTML] CTLA-4 blockade induces a microglia-Th1 cell partnership that stimulates microglia phagocytosis and anti-tumor function in glioblastoma

D Chen, SK Varanasi, T Hara, K Traina, M Sun… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
The limited efficacy of immunotherapies against glioblastoma underscores the urgency of
better understanding immunity in the central nervous system. We found that treatment with …

Kunitz-type protease inhibitor TFPI2 remodels stemness and immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment in glioblastoma

L Pang, M Dunterman, S Guo, F Khan, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) tumors consist of multiple cell populations, including self-renewing
glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs) and immunosuppressive microglia. Here we identified …

Challenges in glioblastoma immunotherapy: mechanisms of resistance and therapeutic approaches to overcome them

KJ Habashy, R Mansour, C Moussalem… - British journal of …, 2022 - nature.com
Glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive primary malignant brain tumour. The
prognosis of patients with glioblastoma is poor, and their overall survival averages at 1 year …

Localization of protoporphyrin IX during glioma-resection surgery via paired stimulated Raman histology and fluorescence microscopy

M Nasir-Moin, LI Wadiura, V Sacalean… - Nature biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
The most widely used fluorophore in glioma-resection surgery, 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-
ALA), is thought to cause the selective accumulation of fluorescent protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) …

Programmable melanoma-targeted radio-immunotherapy via fusogenic liposomes functionalized with multivariate-gated aptamer assemblies

X Ren, R Xue, Y Luo, S Wang, X Ge, X Yao, L Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Radio-immunotherapy exploits the immunostimulatory features of ionizing radiation (IR) to
enhance antitumor effects and offers emerging opportunities for treating invasive tumor …

Immuno-oncologic profiling of pediatric brain tumors reveals major clinical significance of the tumor immune microenvironment

AB Levine, L Nobre, A Das, S Milos, V Bianchi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
With the success of immunotherapy in cancer, understanding the tumor immune
microenvironment (TIME) has become increasingly important; however in pediatric brain …

Checkpoint kinase 1/2 inhibition potentiates anti-tumoral immune response and sensitizes gliomas to immune checkpoint blockade

C Dmello, J Zhao, L Chen, A Gould, B Castro… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Whereas the contribution of tumor microenvironment to the profound immune suppression of
glioblastoma (GBM) is clear, tumor-cell intrinsic mechanisms that regulate resistance to CD8 …