A timeline of tumour-associated macrophage biology

L Cassetta, JW Pollard - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Tumour progression is modulated by the local microenvironment. This environment is
populated by many immune cells, of which macrophages are among the most abundant …

Tumor angiogenesis: causes, consequences, challenges and opportunities

R Lugano, M Ramachandran, A Dimberg - Cellular and Molecular Life …, 2020 - Springer
Tumor vascularization occurs through several distinct biological processes, which not only
vary between tumor type and anatomic location, but also occur simultaneously within the …

Diversity, mechanisms, and significance of macrophage plasticity

M Locati, G Curtale, A Mantovani - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Macrophages are a diverse set of cells present in all body compartments. This diversity is
imprinted by their ontogenetic origin (embryonal versus adult bone marrow–derived cells); …

Targeting macrophages in cancer immunotherapy

Z Duan, Y Luo - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapy is regarded as the most promising treatment for cancers. Various cancer
immunotherapies, including adoptive cellular immunotherapy, tumor vaccines, antibodies …

Phenotype molding of stromal cells in the lung tumor microenvironment

D Lambrechts, E Wauters, B Boeckx, S Aibar… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Cancer cells are embedded in the tumor microenvironment (TME), a complex ecosystem of
stromal cells. Here, we present a 52,698-cell catalog of the TME transcriptome in human …

Macrophage polarization

PJ Murray - Annual review of physiology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Macrophage polarization refers to how macrophages have been activated at a given point in
space and time. Polarization is not fixed, as macrophages are sufficiently plastic to integrate …

Tumor-associated macrophages: from mechanisms to therapy

R Noy, JW Pollard - Immunity, 2014 - cell.com
The tumor microenvironment is a complex ecology of cells that evolves with and provides
support to tumor cells during the transition to malignancy. Among the innate and adaptive …

DNA exonuclease Trex1 regulates radiotherapy-induced tumour immunogenicity

C Vanpouille-Box, A Alard, MJ Aryankalayil… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Radiotherapy is under investigation for its ability to enhance responses to immunotherapy.
However, the mechanisms by which radiation induces anti-tumour T cells remain unclear …

Molecular mechanisms that influence the macrophage M1–M2 polarization balance

N Wang, H Liang, K Zen - Frontiers in immunology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
As an essential component of innate immunity, macrophages have multiple functions in both
inhibiting or promoting cell proliferation and tissue repair. Diversity and plasticity are …

[HTML][HTML] Macrophage diversity enhances tumor progression and metastasis

BZ Qian, JW Pollard - Cell, 2010 - cell.com
There is persuasive clinical and experimental evidence that macrophages promote cancer
initiation and malignant progression. During tumor initiation, they create an inflammatory …