CAR-cell therapy in the era of solid tumor treatment: current challenges and emerging therapeutic advances

KM Maalej, M Merhi, VP Inchakalody, S Mestiri… - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
In the last decade, Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy has emerged as a
promising immunotherapeutic approach to fight cancers. This approach consists of …

Induced pluripotent stem cells in disease modelling and drug discovery

RG Rowe, GQ Daley - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
The derivation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) over a decade ago sparked
widespread enthusiasm for the development of new models of human disease, enhanced …

[HTML][HTML] Human iPSC-derived natural killer cells engineered with chimeric antigen receptors enhance anti-tumor activity

Y Li, DL Hermanson, BS Moriarity, DS Kaufman - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) significantly enhance the anti-tumor activity of immune
effector cells. Although most studies have evaluated CAR expression in T cells, here we …

Chimeric antigen receptor natural killer (CAR-NK) cell design and engineering for cancer therapy

Y Gong, RGJ Klein Wolterink, J Wang, GMJ Bos… - Journal of hematology & …, 2021 - Springer
Due to their efficient recognition and lysis of malignant cells, natural killer (NK) cells are
considered as specialized immune cells that can be genetically modified to obtain capable …

Current perspectives on “off-the-shelf” allogeneic NK and CAR-NK cell therapies

EL Heipertz, ER Zynda, TE Stav-Noraas… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Natural killer cells (NK cells) are the first line of the innate immune defense system, primarily
located in peripheral circulation and lymphoid tissues. They kill virally infected and …

[HTML][HTML] Natural killer cells: In health and disease

A Mandal, C Viswanathan - Hematology/oncology and stem cell therapy, 2015 - Elsevier
Natural killer (NK) cells constitute our bodies' frontline defense system, guarding against
tumors and launching attacks against infections. The activities of NK cells are regulated by …

Current status of pluripotent stem cells: moving the first therapies to the clinic

EA Kimbrel, R Lanza - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2015 - nature.com
Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) hold great promise for drug discovery and regenerative
medicine owing to their ability to differentiate into any cell type in the body. After more than …

Clinical-scale derivation of natural killer cells from human pluripotent stem cells for cancer therapy

DA Knorr, Z Ni, D Hermanson… - Stem cells …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Adoptive transfer of antitumor lymphocytes has gained intense interest in the field of cancer
therapeutics over the past two decades. Human natural killer (NK) cells are a promising …

Latency reversal plus natural killer cells diminish HIV reservoir in vivo

JT Kim, TH Zhang, C Carmona, B Lee, CS Seet… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
HIV is difficult to eradicate due to the persistence of a long-lived reservoir of latently infected
cells. Previous studies have shown that natural killer cells are important to inhibiting HIV …

Induced pluripotent stem cell-derived natural killer cells for treatment of ovarian cancer

DL Hermanson, L Bendzick, L Pribyl, V McCullar… - Stem …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Natural killer (NK) cells can provide effective immunotherapy for ovarian cancer. Here, we
evaluated the ability of NK cells isolated from peripheral blood (PB) and NK cells derived …