ReviewJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2020
Interleukin-15 and cancer: some solved and many unsolved questions.
Review in Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers.
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69 citing papers in PubMed, 96 citations in OpenAlex.
- Plasma proteomics-based liquid biopsy for predicting efficacy of PD-1-based immunochemotherapy in advanced gastric cancer: a prospective cohort study.Molecular biomedicine · 2026Article
- Cross-Cancer Circulating Proteins for the Prognosis of Primary and Metastatic Liver Cancer Treated with Local Ablation: Post Hoc Exploratory Analysis of the ESTIMATE Trial.Radiology. Imaging cancer · 2026Article
- Innovative approaches in the treatment of hematologic malignancies: the role of CRISPR-engineered microbiomes along the gut-immune axis in immunotherapy development.Cancer cell international · 2026Review
- IL-15 promotes immune escape, invasion, and metastasis of pancreatic cancer by upregulating PD-L1 expression via the JAK1/STAT1/IRF1 pathway.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2026Article
- Tumor Microenvironment Onmyoji: Cytokines with Dual Protumor and Antitumor Roles.Cancer communications (London, England) · 2026Review
- Targeting the JAK/STAT pathway with isoliquiritigenin in ovarian cancer: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic implications.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
- IGF2BP1 fosters an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment in high-risk neuroblastoma, contributing to their resistance to immunotherapy.Oncoimmunology · 2025Article
- IL-15 signaling via cis- and trans-presentation to progenitor-exhausted CD8Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2025Article
- Chimeric antigen receptor-based cell therapy for treating urological tumors.Current urology · 2025Review
- Generation of the augmented IL-15-secreting anti-HER2 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-NK cells: an encouraging immunotherapeutic tool.Molecular biology reports · 2025Article
- Interleukin 15 and autoimmune disorders: pathophysiology, therapeutic potential, and clinical implications.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2025Review
- Chronic HBV infection impairs the glucose metabolism and effector function of NK cells via HBsAg/IL-15/mTOR axis.Cell death & disease · 2025Article
- Syngeneic CAR T cells engineered for persistent delivery of desired proteins.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2025Article
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- Interleukin 15 (IL15)-based near-infrared photoimmunotherapy.Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2025Article
- IL-2-independent expansion, persistence, and antitumor activity in TIL expressing regulatable membrane-bound IL-15.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025Article
- IL-15 Superagonist SHR-1501 Enhances Immune Responses in Lung Cancer by Modulating Tumor Microenvironment.The clinical respiratory journal · 2025Article
- Probiotic-mediated tumor microenvironment reprogramming with protease-sensitive interleukin-15 and photothermal therapy.Cell reports. Medicine · 2025Article
- Genetically engineered K562 cells augment NK cell cytotoxicity against acute myeloid leukemia and reduce dependency on IL-15.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2025Article
- Interleukin-15Rα-Sushi-Fc Fusion Protein Co-Hitchhikes Interleukin-15 and Pheophorbide A for Cancer Photoimmunotherapy.Pharmaceutics · 2025Article
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Abstract
Soluble interleukin (IL)-15 exists under two forms: as monomer (sIL-15) or as heterodimeric complex in association with sIL-15Rα (sIL-15/IL-15Rα). Both forms have been successfully tested in experimental tumor murine models and are currently undergoing investigation in phase I/II clinical trials. Despite more than 20 years research on IL-15, some controversial issues remain to be addressed. A first point concerns the detection of the sIL-15/IL-15Rα in plasma of healthy donors or patients with cancer and its biological significance. The second and third unsolved question regards the protumorigenic role of the IL-15/IL-15Rα complex in human cancer and the detrimental immunological consequences associated to prolonged exposure of natural killer (NK) cells to both forms of soluble IL-15, respectively. Data suggest that in vivo prolonged or repeated exposure to monomeric sIL-15 or the soluble complex may lead to NK hypo-responsiveness through the expansion of the CD8
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