Immune checkpoint modulators in cancer immunotherapy: recent advances and emerging concepts

Y Wang, H Zhang, C Liu, Z Wang, W Wu… - Journal of Hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
The discovery of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has now been universally
acknowledged as a significant breakthrough in tumor therapy after the targeted treatment of …

Advantages of targeting the tumor immune microenvironment over blocking immune checkpoint in cancer immunotherapy

T Tang, X Huang, G Zhang, Z Hong, X Bai… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite great success in cancer immunotherapy, immune checkpoint-targeting drugs are not
the most popular weapon in the armory of cancer therapy. Accumulating evidence suggests …

Combination immunotherapy with CAR T cells and checkpoint blockade for the treatment of solid tumors

R Grosser, L Cherkassky, N Chintala, PS Adusumilli - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
Checkpoint blockade (CPB) therapy can elicit durable clinical responses by reactivating an
exhausted immune response. However, response rates remain limited, likely secondary to a …

[HTML][HTML] Recent strategies for nano-based PTT combined with immunotherapy: from a biomaterial point of view

X Huang, Y Lu, M Guo, S Du, N Han - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer has been a great threat to humans for decades. Due to the limitations of
monotherapy, combinational therapies such as photothermal therapy (PTT) and …

Chemotherapy-induced COX-2 upregulation by cancer cells defines their inflammatory properties and limits the efficacy of chemoimmunotherapy combinations

CR Bell, VS Pelly, A Moeini, SC Chiang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Cytotoxic therapies, besides directly inducing cancer cell death, can stimulate immune-
dependent tumor growth control or paradoxically accelerate tumor progression. The …

An osteopontin/CD44 immune checkpoint controls CD8+ T cell activation and tumor immune evasion

JD Klement, AV Paschall, PS Redd… - The Journal of …, 2018 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Despite breakthroughs in immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) immunotherapy, not all human
cancers respond to ICI immunotherapy and a large fraction of patients with the responsive …

Tumor heterogeneity: a great barrier in the age of cancer immunotherapy

N El-Sayes, A Vito, K Mossman - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Despite great advances in cancer therapy, tumor heterogeneity continues
to be a great barrier for the successful treatment of cancer. It has long been established that …

Regulatory T cells restrain interleukin-2-and Blimp-1-dependent acquisition of cytotoxic function by CD4+ T cells

A Śledzińska, MV de Mucha, K Bergerhoff, A Hotblack… - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
In addition to helper and regulatory potential, CD4+ T cells also acquire cytotoxic activity
marked by granzyme B (GzmB) expression and the ability to promote rejection of …

The nitrogen mustards

MS Highley, B Landuyt, H Prenen, PG Harper… - Pharmacological …, 2022 - Elsevier
The nitrogen mustards are powerful cytotoxic and lymphoablative agents and have been
used for more than 60 years. They are employed in the treatment of cancers, sarcomas, and …

Immune checkpoint inhibitor‐based strategies for synergistic cancer therapy

M He, T Yang, Y Wang, M Wang, X Chen… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Immune checkpoint blockade therapy (ICBT) targeting checkpoints, such as, cytotoxic T‐
lymphocyte associated protein‐4 (CTLA‐4), programmed death‐1 (PD‐1), or programmed …