ReviewActa pharmaceutica Sinica. B2025
Understanding the complexity of tumor-associated macrophages: Druggable and therapeutic insights.
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- IFI30 reprograms glioblastoma-associated macrophage and induces immune evasion by MAFF/PTGS2 pathway.Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2026Article
- Macrophage-reprogramming calcium alginate microspheres enhance exosome-mediated antigen cross-presentation to boost embolization-immunotherapy in hepatocellular carcinoma.Materials today. Bio · 2026Article
- Fungal metabolite-based immunotherapy overcomes tumor-associated macrophage immunosuppression.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Article
- Syringin disrupts the DLAT/MYC axis to dampen TAM polarization and suppress hepatocellular carcinoma progression.Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2026Article
- Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: integrating molecular insights for targeted interventions.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026Review
- The double-edged sword role of tumor-associated macrophages: preventing or causing resistance to immunotherapy.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2026Review
- Integrated single-cell and spatial transcriptomics uncover SPP1⁺ and HLA-DRB5⁺ macrophages as key modulators of the immune microenvironment in colorectal cancer liver metastasis.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Article
- Notch signaling in the tumor microenvironment: recent advances and targeted therapeutics.Molecular cancer · 2026Review
- Immune Cell-Mediated Inflammation in Heart Failure: Subset Heterogeneity and Targeted Therapy.International journal of general medicine · 2026Review
- TAM-targeted nanomedicine in cancer: biological basis, therapeutic strategies, and translational perspectives.Theranostics · 2026Review
- Patterns of immune cell infiltration and oxidative stress in cervical cancer.Oncology reviews · 2025Review
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Abstract
Macrophages are immune cells capable of exerting both pro-tumor and anti-tumor effects. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) comprise a heterogeneous group of macrophages originating from monocytes and resident tissue macrophages. Their phenotypes and functions vary depending on factors such as tumor type, location, and stage. TAMs can promote tumor growth, angiogenesis, metastasis, immunosuppression, and drug resistance, or they can facilitate antigen presentation and immune activation, thereby contributing to tumor elimination. As such, TAMs are potential targets for cancer therapy, and various pharmacological strategies and clinic-approved drugs have been suggested to modulate their activity, recruitment, and depletion. However, the complexity and diversity of TAMs present significant challenges to understanding their roles and designing effective drug interventions. This review summarizes the current knowledge of TAMs, and drug development for TAMs as anti-tumor therapy targets, emphasizing the importance of single-cell omics technologies for characterizing TAM heterogeneity and identifying therapeutic opportunities. Additionally, it presents the latest clinical trials focused on TAM-targeted therapies and drugs. Collectively, this review discusses the therapeutic opportunities and challenges of TAM-targeted drug therapies and offers future perspectives and directions for advancing our understanding and manipulation of TAMs in drug development.
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