Understanding the immunosuppressive microenvironment of glioma: mechanistic insights and clinical perspectives

H Lin, C Liu, A Hu, D Zhang, H Yang, Y Mao - Journal of hematology & …, 2024 - Springer
Glioblastoma (GBM), the predominant and primary malignant intracranial tumor, poses a
formidable challenge due to its immunosuppressive microenvironment, thereby confounding …

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 …

Siglec-9 acts as an immune-checkpoint molecule on macrophages in glioblastoma, restricting T-cell priming and immunotherapy response

Y Mei, X Wang, J Zhang, D Liu, J He, C Huang, J Liao… - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Neoadjuvant immune-checkpoint blockade therapy only benefits a limited fraction of patients
with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Thus, targeting other immunomodulators on myeloid …

Effect of nivolumab vs bevacizumab in patients with recurrent glioblastoma: the CheckMate 143 phase 3 randomized clinical trial

DA Reardon, AA Brandes, A Omuro… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Clinical outcomes for glioblastoma remain poor. Treatment with immune
checkpoint blockade has shown benefits in many cancer types. To our knowledge, data from …

Inhibitory CD161 receptor identified in glioma-infiltrating T cells by single-cell analysis

ND Mathewson, O Ashenberg, I Tirosh, S Gritsch… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
T cells are critical effectors of cancer immunotherapies, but little is known about their gene
expression programs in diffuse gliomas. Here, we leverage single-cell RNA sequencing …

Neoantigen vaccine generates intratumoral T cell responses in phase Ib glioblastoma trial

DB Keskin, AJ Anandappa, J Sun, I Tirosh… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Neoantigens, which are derived from tumour-specific protein-coding mutations, are exempt
from central tolerance, can generate robust immune responses, and can function as bona …

Randomized phase II and biomarker study of pembrolizumab plus bevacizumab versus pembrolizumab alone for patients with recurrent glioblastoma

L Nayak, AM Molinaro, K Peters, JL Clarke… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - aacrjournals.org
Purpose: VEGF is upregulated in glioblastoma and may contribute to immunosuppression.
We performed a phase II study of pembrolizumab alone or with bevacizumab in recurrent …

[HTML][HTML] Immunosuppression in glioblastoma: current understanding and therapeutic implications

BT Himes, PA Geiger, K Ayasoufi, AG Bhargav… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary brain tumor in adults an carries and carries
a terrible prognosis. The current regiment of surgical resection, radiation, and chemotherapy …

Tumor-derived exosomes in the regulation of macrophage polarization

MS Baig, A Roy, S Rajpoot, D Liu, R Savai… - Inflammation …, 2020 - Springer
Background This review focuses on exosomes derived from various cancer cells. The review
discusses the possibility of differentiating macrophages in alternatively activated anti …

Immunotherapy response assessment in neuro-oncology: a report of the RANO working group

H Okada, M Weller, R Huang, G Finocchiaro… - The Lancet …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Immunotherapy is a promising area of therapy in patients with neuro-oncological
malignancies. However, early-phase studies show unique challenges associated with the …