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ArticleMolecular therapy. Oncology2025

Ruxolitinib and oHSV combination therapy increases CD4 T cell activity and germinal center B cell populations in murine sarcoma.

Ravi Dhital, Yeaseul Kim, Doyeon Kim, Ilse Hernandez-Aguirre, Jack Hedberg, Alexia Martin, Kevin A Cassady

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Article in Molecular therapy. Oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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7 authors.

Ravi DhitalCenter for Childhood Cancer Research, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.
Yeaseul KimCenter for Childhood Cancer Research, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.
Doyeon KimCenter for Childhood Cancer Research, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.
Ilse Hernandez-AguirreCenter for Childhood Cancer Research, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.
Jack HedbergCenter for Childhood Cancer Research, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.
Alexia MartinCenter for Childhood Cancer Research, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.
Kevin A CassadyCenter for Childhood Cancer Research, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.

Funding

Project 4:Targeting M2-like Macrophages and MDSC with Myelolytic-VirotherapyU54CA232561 · NCI · RESEARCH INST NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSP · PI CAIRO, MITCHELL S., CRIPE, TIMOTHY P · 2019 to 2023
$12.1M
Training Program in Basic and Translational Pediatric Oncology ResearchT32CA269052 · NCI · RESEARCH INST NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSP · PI TIMOTHY P CRIPE · 2022 to 2026
$1.8M
Oncolytic Immunotherapy using Chimeric HSV C134: A Phase I Trial and Establishment of Response Indicators in Recurrent Glioma PatientsR01CA222903 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI CASSADY, KEVIN A, MARKERT, JAMES M · 2018 to 2020
$1.7M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA222903NCI NIH HHS T32 CA269052NCI NIH HHS U54 CA232561
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) are a highly aggressive neoplasm of the peripheral nervous system and are resistant to most conventional cancer therapies. We previously showed that pretreatment with ruxolitinib (RUX) enhanced the efficacy of oncolytic herpes simplex virus (oHSV) virotherapy in this murine sarcoma model. A low abundance of tumor-infiltrating leukocytes and limitations in conventional flow cytometry restrict analyses to a narrow subset of immune cells, potentially introducing a confirmation bias. To address these limitations, we developed a 46-color spectral flow cytometry panel for the detailed analysis of immune cell dynamics following repeated oHSV dosing. Beyond the cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) and regulatory T cell (Treg) changes reported in our earlier studies, RUX+oHSV treatment modulates myeloid and other lymphoid compartments, including germinal center B cell populations with enhanced activation. RUX+oHSV therapy also increased cytokine-expressing CD4(+) populations, predominantly granzyme B(+) cytotoxic-like, interferon (IFN)-γ(+) T helper type 1 (Th1)-like, and interleukin (IL)-21(+) T follicular helper (Tfh)-like phenotypes, within the tumor infiltrates, suggestive of potential tertiary lymphoid structure development in the treated tumors. Here, we illustrate the utility of a high-dimensional spectral flow cytometry panel that permits simultaneous evaluation of intratumoral CD4/CD8 T cell, Treg, γδ-T cell, natural killer T (NKT) cell, B cell, NK cell, monocyte, macrophage, granulocyte, myeloid-derived suppressor cell (MDSC), and dendritic cell functional changes from RUX+oHSV-treated MPNSTs.

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cytokinescytotoxic CD4(+) T cellsgerminal center B cellsMPNSTmyeloid cellsoncolytic HSVruxolitinibspectral flow cytometry

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PMID39895689
PMCPMC11787636

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