Targeting macrophages in cancer immunotherapy

Z Duan, Y Luo - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapy is regarded as the most promising treatment for cancers. Various cancer
immunotherapies, including adoptive cellular immunotherapy, tumor vaccines, antibodies …

Turning foes to friends: targeting cancer-associated fibroblasts

X Chen, E Song - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2019 - nature.com
Current paradigms of cancer-centric therapeutics are usually not sufficient to eradicate the
malignancy, as the cancer stroma may prompt tumour relapse and therapeutic resistance …

A single-cell and spatially resolved atlas of human breast cancers

SZ Wu, G Al-Eryani, DL Roden, S Junankar, K Harvey… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Breast cancers are complex cellular ecosystems where heterotypic interactions play central
roles in disease progression and response to therapy. However, our knowledge of their …

Chemokines in the cancer microenvironment and their relevance in cancer immunotherapy

N Nagarsheth, MS Wicha, W Zou - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2017 - nature.com
The tumour microenvironment is the primary location in which tumour cells and the host
immune system interact. Different immune cell subsets are recruited into the tumour …

Targeting tumor microenvironment for cancer therapy

C Roma-Rodrigues, R Mendes, PV Baptista… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cancer development is highly associated to the physiological state of the tumor
microenvironment (TME). Despite the existing heterogeneity of tumors from the same or from …

Tumor-associated macrophages: an accomplice in solid tumor progression

Y Chen, Y Song, W Du, L Gong, H Chang… - Journal of biomedical …, 2019 - Springer
In many solid tumor types, tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are important
components of the tumor microenvironment (TME). Moreover, TAMs infiltration is strongly …

Macrophage biology in development, homeostasis and disease

TA Wynn, A Chawla, JW Pollard - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Macrophages, the most plastic cells of the haematopoietic system, are found in all tissues
and show great functional diversity. They have roles in development, homeostasis, tissue …

A guide to chemokines and their receptors

CE Hughes, RJB Nibbs - The FEBS journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The chemokines (or chemotactic cytokines) are a large family of small, secreted proteins that
signal through cell surface G protein‐coupled heptahelical chemokine receptors. They are …

Macrophage plasticity and polarization: in vivo veritas

A Sica, A Mantovani - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2012 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Diversity and plasticity are hallmarks of cells of the monocyte-macrophage lineage. In
response to IFNs, Toll-like receptor engagement, or IL-4/IL-13 signaling, macrophages …

Breast cancer metastasis: mechanisms and therapeutic implications

M Park, D Kim, S Ko, A Kim, K Mo, H Yoon - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women worldwide. Metastasis is the
leading cause of high mortality in most cancers. Although predicting the early stage of breast …