Engineering macrophages for cancer immunotherapy and drug delivery

Y **a, L Rao, H Yao, Z Wang, P Ning… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Macrophages play an important role in cancer development and metastasis.
Proinflammatory M1 macrophages can phagocytose tumor cells, while anti‐inflammatory M2 …

Exosome-based immunotherapy: a promising approach for cancer treatment

Z Xu, S Zeng, Z Gong, Y Yan - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
In the era of the rapid development of cancer immunotherapy, there is a high level of interest
in the application of cell-released small vesicles that stimulate the immune system. As cell …

Multifaceted carbonized metal–organic frameworks synergize with immune checkpoint inhibitors for precision and augmented cuproptosis cancer therapy

C Zhao, X Tang, X Chen, Z Jiang - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
The discovery of cuproptosis, a copper-dependent mechanism of programmed cell death,
has provided a way for cancer treatment. However, cuproptosis has inherent limitations …

Engineered neutrophil-derived exosome-like vesicles for targeted cancer therapy

J Zhang, C Ji, H Zhang, H Shi, F Mao, H Qian, W Xu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Neutrophils are the most abundant innate immune cells in human circulation; however, their
derived exosomes have been rarely studied for tumor treatment. Here, we reported that …

Tumor-associated macrophages regulate PD-1/PD-L1 immunosuppression

Y Pu, Q Ji - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Anti-programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) or anti-PD-ligand (L) 1 drugs, as classic immune
checkpoint inhibitors, are considered promising treatment strategies for tumors. In clinical …

Recent applications of immunomodulatory biomaterials for disease immunotherapy

H Dai, Q Fan, C Wang - Exploration, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Immunotherapy is used to regulate systemic hyperactivation or hypoactivation to treat
various diseases. Biomaterial‐based immunotherapy systems can improve therapeutic …

Engineered extracellular vesicles for cancer therapy

X Zhang, H Zhang, J Gu, J Zhang, H Shi… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as a novel cell‐free strategy for the treatment of
many diseases including cancer. As a result of their natural properties to mediate cell‐to‐cell …

Exosome-mediated metabolic reprogramming: the emerging role in tumor microenvironment remodeling and its influence on cancer progression

E Yang, X Wang, Z Gong, M Yu, H Wu… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Metabolic reprogramming is reported to be one of the hallmarks of cancer, which is an
adaptive mechanism by which fast-growing cancer cells adapt to their increasing energy …

Boosting anti-PD-1 therapy with metformin-loaded macrophage-derived microparticles

Z Wei, X Zhang, T Yong, N Bie, G Zhan, X Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The main challenges for programmed cell death 1 (PD-1)/PD-1 ligand (PD-L1) checkpoint
blockade lie in a lack of sufficient T cell infiltration, tumor immunosuppressive …

Hybrid cellular membrane nanovesicles amplify macrophage immune responses against cancer recurrence and metastasis

L Rao, L Wu, Z Liu, R Tian, G Yu, Z Zhou… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Effectively activating macrophages against cancer is promising but challenging. In particular,
cancer cells express CD47, a 'don't eat me'signal that interacts with signal regulatory protein …