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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2025

Advances of oncolytic vaccinia viruses armed with interleukin in tumor therapy.

Mingyong Zha, Fei Huang, Songlin Li, Qi Wang, Yong Tang

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Mingyong Zha *Department of Urology, Wuming Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China.
Fei Huang *Department of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China.
Songlin Li *Department of Urology, Wuming Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China.
Qi WangDepartment of Experimental Research, Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital, Nanning, Guangxi, China.
Yong TangDepartment of Urology, Wuming Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oncolytic vaccinia viruses armed with interleukins represent a promising frontier in tumor therapy. Oncolytic vaccinia viruses express IL-2, IL-10, IL-12, IL-15, IL-21, IL-23, IL-24, and IL-36γ remodel the tumor microenvironment,enhance immune cell infiltration, suppress immunosuppressive elements and promot systemic antitumor immunity. Combinatorial strategies with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, metabolic modulators, immune checkpoint inhibitors, or natural compounds amplify therapeutic efficacy for tumors. In addition, we review the existing solutions to the problems of the immune clearance of virus, such as the use of inhibitors to prevent neutralizing antibodies from binding to the virus and the use of polymer encapsulation or mesenchymal stem cell loading. We also discussed Current directions include optimizing delivery systems, leveraging Artificial Intelligence for personalized designs of Oncolytic vaccinia virus inserted interleukins to guide the research in the future.

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combined therapygene therapyinterleukinsoncolytic vaccinia virustumor microenvironment

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PMID40469178
PMCPMC12133479

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