Systemic immunity in cancer

KJ Hiam-Galvez, BM Allen, MH Spitzer - Nature reviews cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment, but efficacy remains limited in most
clinical settings. Cancer is a systemic disease that induces many functional and …

Engineering dendritic cell vaccines to improve cancer immunotherapy

CR Perez, M De Palma - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
At the interface between the innate and adaptive immune system, dendritic cells (DCs) play
key roles in tumour immunity and hold a hitherto unrealized potential for cancer …

Human dendritic cells: their heterogeneity and clinical application potential in cancer immunotherapy

TA Patente, MP Pinho, AA Oliveira… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Dendritic cells (DC) are professional antigen presenting cells, uniquely able to induce naïve
T cell activation and effector differentiation. They are, likewise, involved in the induction and …

Antitumour dendritic cell vaccination in a priming and boosting approach

A Harari, M Graciotti, M Bassani-Sternberg… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Mobilizing antitumour immunity through vaccination potentially constitutes a powerful
anticancer strategy but has not yet provided robust clinical benefits in large patient …

Dendritic cells in the cancer microenvironment

Y Ma, GV Shurin, Z Peiyuan, MR Shurin - Journal of Cancer, 2012 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The complexity of the tumor immunoenvironment is underscored by the emergence and
discovery of different subsets of immune effectors and regulatory cells. Tumor-induced …

Mechanisms and functional significance of tumour-induced dendritic-cell defects

D Gabrilovich - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2004 - nature.com
The failure of the immune system to provide protection against tumour cells is an important
immunological problem. It is now evident that inadequate function of the host immune …

Human mesenchymal stem cells alter antigen-presenting cell maturation and induce T-cell unresponsiveness

S Beyth, Z Borovsky, D Mevorach, M Liebergall, Z Gazit… - Blood, 2005 - ashpublications.org
Infusion of either embryonic or mesenchymal stem cells prolongs the survival of organ
transplants derived from stem cell donors and prevents graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD) …

IGF2: a role in metastasis and tumor evasion from immune surveillance?

A Belfiore, RV Rapicavoli, R Le Moli, R Lappano… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) is upregulated in both childhood and adult malignancies.
Its overexpression is associated with resistance to chemotherapy and worse prognosis …

Engineering an artificial T‐cell stimulating matrix for immunotherapy

JW Hickey, Y Dong, JW Chung, SF Salathe… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
T cell therapies require the removal and culture of T cells ex vivo to expand several
thousand‐fold. However, these cells often lose the phenotype and cytotoxic functionality for …

All-trans-Retinoic Acid Improves Differentiation of Myeloid Cells and Immune Response in Cancer Patients

N Mirza, M Fishman, I Fricke, M Dunn, AM Neuger… - Cancer …, 2006 - aacrjournals.org
Abnormal dendritic cell differentiation and accumulation of immature myeloid suppressor
cells (ImC) is one of the major mechanisms of tumor escape. We tested the possibility of …