Advances in local therapy for glioblastoma—taking the fight to the tumour

TS van Solinge, L Nieland, EA Chiocca… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite advances in neurosurgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, glioblastoma remains
one of the most treatment-resistant CNS malignancies, and the tumour inevitably recurs. The …

Next-generation stem cells—ushering in a new era of cell-based therapies

EA Kimbrel, R Lanza - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2020 - nature.com
Naturally occurring stem cells isolated from humans have been used therapeutically for
decades. This has primarily involved the transplantation of primary cells such as …

Neural stem cell delivery of an oncolytic adenovirus in newly diagnosed malignant glioma: a first-in-human, phase 1, dose-escalation trial

J Fares, AU Ahmed, IV Ulasov, AM Sonabend… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Malignant glioma is the most common and lethal primary brain tumour, with
dismal survival rates and no effective treatment. We examined the safety and activity of NSC …

Stem cell therapies in clinical trials: progress and challenges

A Trounson, C McDonald - Cell stem cell, 2015 - cell.com
Clinical investigations using stem cell products in regenerative medicine are addressing a
wide spectrum of conditions using a variety of stem cell types. To date, there have been few …

Gene editing for immune cell therapies

SR Bailey, MV Maus - Nature biotechnology, 2019 - nature.com
Autologous T cells that have been genetically modified to express a chimeric antigen
receptor (CAR) targeting the B cell antigen CD19 have yielded remarkable clinical …

Neural stem cells: generating and regenerating the brain

FH Gage, S Temple - Neuron, 2013 - cell.com
One of the landmark events of the past 25 years in neuroscience research was the
establishment of neural stem cells (NSCs) as a life-long source of neurons and glia, a …

Transvascular transport of nanocarriers for tumor delivery

X Li, Y Hu, X Zhang, X Shi, WJ Parak, A Pich - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Nanocarriers (NCs) play a crucial role in delivering theranostic agents to tumors, making
them a pivotal focus of research. However, the persistently low delivery efficiency of …

Stem cells in cancer therapy: opportunities and challenges

CL Zhang, T Huang, BL Wu, WX He, D Liu - Oncotarget, 2017 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Metastatic cancer cells generally cannot be eradicated using traditional surgical or
chemoradiotherapeutic strategies, and disease recurrence is extremely common following …

The nasal approach to delivering treatment for brain diseases: an anatomic, physiologic, and delivery technology overview

PG Djupesland, JC Messina, RA Mahmoud - Therapeutic delivery, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The intricate pathophysiology of brain disorders, difficult access to the brain, and the
complexity and high risks and costs of drug development represent major hurdles for …

Human induced pluripotent stem cells for tumor targeted delivery of gold nanorods and enhanced photothermal therapy

Y Liu, M Yang, J Zhang, X Zhi, C Li, C Zhang, F Pan… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
How to improve effective accumulation and intratumoral distribution of plasmonic gold
nanoparticles has become a great challenge for photothermal therapy of tumors. Herein, we …