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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2025

Intratumoral Injectable Redox-Responsive Immune Niche Improves the Abscopal Effect in Radiotherapy.

Kin Man Au, J Steven Swinnea, Andrew Z Wang

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 authors.

Kin Man AuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75230, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9341-0479
J Steven SwinneaDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 200 E Dean Keeton St, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
Andrew Z WangDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75230, USA.

Funding

UT Southwestern Medical Center Simmons Comprehensive Cancer CenterP30CA142543 · NCI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI Kathryn Ann O'Donnell · 2010 to 2026
$53.7M
Targeting through Selective Cell LabelingR01EB025651 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI LEAL, CECILIA MARIA, WANG, ANDREW ZHUANG · 2018 to 2021
$1.9M
Basement Membrane Targeted Nanoparticles for Post-Surgical Adhesion PreventionR01GM130590 · NIGMS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI WANG, ANDREW ZHUANG · 2019 to 2022
$1.5M
TEM for UT Southwestern Electron Microscopy Core FacilityS10OD021685 · OD · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI LUBY-PHELPS, KATHERINE J · 2017 to 2017
$398k
National Science Foundation Major Research Instrument CBET-1624659NCI NIH HHS P30 CA142543NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB025651NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM130590NIH HHS R01EB025651NIH HHS R01GM130590NIH HHS S10 OD021685University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Startup
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radiotherapy (XRT) is often utilized to improve the immune checkpoint blockade response in cancer management. Such combination treatment can enhance the abscopal effect, facilitating a prolonged and durable systemic response. However, despite intense research efforts, only a minority of patients respond to this approach, and novel strategies to increase the abscopal effect are urgently needed. Here, the development of an intratumoral (i.t.) injectable nanofiber (NF)-based tumor immune niche (TIN) that converts XRT-treated tumors into an in situ cancer vaccine, eliciting robust systemic antitumor immunity, is reported. This NF-based immune niche incorporates redox-degradable anti-CTLA-4 (α-CTLA-4) nanogels (NGs) and interleukin-2 (IL-2) NGs for controlled release in hypoxic irradiated tumors, reversing the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment into a pro-inflammatory microenvironment, and expanding the tumor-infiltrating CD8

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CD8-Positive T-LymphocytesOxidation-ReductionTumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsCancer VaccinesCell Line, TumorCTLA-4 AntigenHumansInterleukin-2MiceNanogelsPoly I-CCancer VaccinesCTLA-4 AntigenInterleukin-2NanogelsPoly I-Cabscopal effectdiblock copolymer nanofibersimmunotherapynanogelsradiotherapytumor‐infiltrating lymphocytes

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PMID39501983
PMCPMC11710980

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