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ArticleCell reports. Medicine2025

CV1-secreting sCAR-T cells potentiate the abscopal effect of microwave ablation in heterogeneous tumors.

Bihui Cao, Manting Liu, Zecong Xiao, Dongliang Leng, Yubo Zhou, Zhenfeng Zhang, Lu Wang, Xinkun Huang, Qianqian Ni, Wei Cheng and 4 more

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Article in Cell reports. Medicine, 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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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. [Progress in the Immune Mechanism of Microwave Ablation Therapy for Lung Cancer].Zhongguo fei ai za zhi = Chinese journal of lung cancer · 2025
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14 authors.

Bihui CaoDepartment of Minimally Invasive Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Central Laboratory, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510260, China; Medical Sciences Program, Indiana University School of Medicine, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
Manting LiuDepartment of Minimally Invasive Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Central Laboratory, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510260, China.
Zecong XiaoNanomedicine Research Center, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510630, China.
Dongliang LengMoE Frontiers Science Center for Precision Oncology, Institute of Translational Medicine, Cancer Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau SAR 999078, China.
Yubo ZhouDepartment of Library, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 511436, China.
Zhenfeng ZhangDepartment of Minimally Invasive Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Central Laboratory, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510260, China.
Lu WangGuangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510080, China.
Xinkun HuangDepartment of Minimally Invasive Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Central Laboratory, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510260, China.
Qianqian NiDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119074, Singapore.
Wei ChengGuangzhou Municipal and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Protein Modification and Degradation, School of Basic Medical Science, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 511436, China.
Yehuda G AssarafThe Fred Wyszkowski Cancer Research Laboratory, Faculty of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel.
Qi ZhaoMoE Frontiers Science Center for Precision Oncology, Institute of Translational Medicine, Cancer Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau SAR 999078, China. Electronic address: qizhao@um.edu.mo.
Jia ShenMedical Sciences Program, Indiana University School of Medicine, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA; Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA. Electronic address: shen17@iu.edu.
Kangshun ZhuDepartment of Minimally Invasive Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Central Laboratory, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510260, China. Electronic address: zhksh010@163.com.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microwave ablation (MWA) triggers a weak systemic immune response that leads to the abscopal regression of distant metastases while killing local tumors, known as the abscopal effect. Combining MWA with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells demonstrates promise in enhancing the abscopal effect in antigen-homogeneous tumors. However, the loss of the antigen recognized by CAR or intrinsic antigenic heterogeneity in solid tumors poses a major obstacle. SIRPα variant (CV1)-secreting CAR-T (sCAR-T) cells elicit an abscopal effect on distant tumors with antigen heterogeneity in mice receiving local MWA. Mechanistically, sCAR-T cells can locally eliminate antigen-positive tumors and secrete CV1, whereas the secreted CV1 can activate macrophages that migrate to non-ablated tumor sites in response to post-MWA chemokines, eliciting a macrophage-dependent abscopal effect that enables phagocytosis of antigen-heterogeneous cancer cells. This macrophage-dependent abscopal effect instigated by MWA and sCAR-T cells offers a clinically translatable strategy in metastatic solid tumors with antigen heterogeneity.

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MicrowavesNeoplasmsT-LymphocytesAnimalsCell Line, TumorFemaleHumansImmunotherapy, AdoptiveMacrophagesMiceReceptors, Chimeric AntigenReceptors, Chimeric Antigenabscopal effectchimeric antigen receptorheterogeneous tumorsmacrophagemicrowave ablationSIRPα

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PMCPMC11866491

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