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ReviewExploration of targeted anti-tumor therapy2025

Unmasking the potential: mechanisms of neuroinflammatory modulation by oncolytic viruses in glioblastoma.

Narimene Beder, Seyedeh Nasim Mirbahari, Mourad Belkhelfa, Hamid Mahdizadeh, Mehdi Totonchi

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Review in Exploration of targeted anti-tumor therapy, 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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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Crosslink Between Neuroinflammation and Oxidative/Nitrosative Status in the Glioblastoma Tumor Microenvironment: Prognostic and Theranostic Impact.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Narimene BederCytokines and NO-Synthases, Immunity and Pathogeny Team, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Science, University of Sciences and Technology "Houari Boumediene", Algiers 16111, Algeria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9939-4366
Seyedeh Nasim MirbahariDepartment of Developmental Biology, School of Basic Sciences and Advanced Technologies in Biology, University of Science and Culture, Tehran 1461968151, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1535-4341
Mourad BelkhelfaCytokines and NO-Synthases, Immunity and Pathogeny Team, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Science, University of Sciences and Technology "Houari Boumediene", Algiers 16111, Algeria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9561-2226
Hamid MahdizadehRoyanTuCAGene Medical and Molecular Laboratory Research Ltd., Tehran 1665894739, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6233-0174
Mehdi TotonchiDepartment of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran 16635148, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7285-3155

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastoma, an aggressive and lethal brain tumor, presents enormous clinical challenges, including molecular heterogeneity, high recurrence rates, resistance to conventional therapies, and limited therapeutic penetration across the blood-brain barrier. The glioblastoma microenvironment, characterized by a dynamic interplay of cellular and non-cellular components, is a key driver of tumor growth and therapeutic resistance. Neuroinflammatory cytokines, particularly interleukins and tumor necrosis factor-alpha, play pivotal roles in this microenvironment, contributing to tumor progression and immune evasion. This review highlights oncolytic virotherapy as a promising therapeutic avenue, focusing on its potential to modulate neuroinflammatory responses, induce localized immune reactions, and deliver immunomodulatory factors directly to the tumor site. While encouraging outcomes have been observed, challenges such as overcoming the blood-brain barrier, managing host antiviral immunity, and mitigating potential risks to normal neuronal cells remain critical barriers to clinical translation. By analyzing the intricate interactions of oncolytic viruses with the glioblastoma microenvironment and synthesizing findings from preclinical and clinical trials, this review provides actionable insights into developing personalized and effective therapeutic strategies for this aggressive tumor based on oncolytic virotherapy alone or when using it combined with conventional therapies, immunotherapy, natural killer-cell therapy, chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy, and dendritic cell therapy.

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combined therapiescytokinesGlioblastomaneuroinflammationoncolytic virotherapytumor microenvironment

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