ReviewCancers2021
Targeting NK Cells to Enhance Melanoma Response to Immunotherapies.
Review in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cellular immunotherapy in melanoma: the next frontier in cancer treatment.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2026Review
- Uncovering the Intricate and Heterogeneous Cellular Microenvironment of Cutaneous Melanoma.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- CAR-T cell therapy and reconstructive oncologic surgery in peripheral solid tumors-A narrative review.Cell reports. Medicine · 2025Review
- Variation in Immune and Inflammatory Blood Markers in Advanced Melanoma Patients Treated with PD-1 Inhibitors: A Preliminary Exploratory Study.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- NKG2D ligand expression on NK cells induces NKG2D-mediated cross-tolerization of cytokine signaling and reduces NK cell tumor immunity.Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) · 2025Article
- Application of adoptive cell therapy in malignant melanoma.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Review
- Characterizing spatial immune architecture in metastatic melanoma using high-dimensional multiplex imaging.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- Immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment and advance in immunotherapy in melanoma bone metastasis.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Innate immune cells in tumor microenvironment: A new frontier in cancer immunotherapy.iScience · 2024Review
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- Beyond Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Emerging Targets in Melanoma Therapy.Current oncology reports · 2024Review
- Determinants of resistance and response to melanoma therapy.Nature cancer · 2024Review
- Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes as a prognostic and predictive factor for Melanoma.Expert review of molecular diagnostics · 2024Review
- An AI-assisted integrated, scalable, single-cell phenomic-transcriptomic platform to elucidate intratumor heterogeneity against immune response.Bioengineering & translational medicine · 2024Article
- The role of immunity in insulin resistance in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Review
- Therapeutic approaches to enhance natural killer cell cytotoxicity.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Review
- The nexus of natural killer cells and melanoma tumor microenvironment: crosstalk, chemotherapeutic potential, and innovative NK cell-based therapeutic strategies.Cancer cell international · 2023Review
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- Tumor-Infiltrating iNKT Cells Activated through c-Kit/Sca-1 Are Induced by Pentoxifylline, Norcantharidin, and Their Mixtures for Killing Murine Melanoma Cells.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Targeting Potential of Innate Lymphoid Cells in Melanoma and Other Cancers.Pharmaceutics · 2023Review
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Natural killer (NK) cells are a key component of an innate immune system. They are important not only in initiating, but also in augmenting adaptive immune responses. NK cell activation is mediated by a carefully orchestrated balance between the signals from inhibitory and activating NK cell receptors. NK cells are potent producers of proinflammatory cytokines and are also able to elicit strong antitumor responses through secretion of perforin and granzyme B. Tumors can develop many mechanisms to evade NK cell antitumor responses, such as upregulating ligands for inhibitory receptors, secreting anti-inflammatory cytokines and recruiting immunosuppressive cells. Enhancing NK cell responses will likely augment the effectiveness of immunotherapies, and strategies to accomplish this are currently being evaluated in clinical trials. A comprehensive understanding of NK cell biology will likely provide additional opportunities to further leverage the antitumor effects of NK cells. In this review, we therefore sought to highlight NK cell biology, tumor evasion of NK cells and clinical trials that target NK cells.
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