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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2025

Shaping the glioblastoma microenvironment to enhance CAR-NK immunotherapy.

Emily Tang, Jake Y Chen

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Emily TangNorth Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC, United States.
Jake Y ChenSystems Pharmacology Artificial intelligence (AI) Research Center and Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, School of Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chimeric antigen receptor-natural killer (CAR-NK) cell therapy has shown favorable results in treating hematological malignancies but with limited efficacy against solid tumors, including glioblastomas, which is partly due to the immunosuppressive microenvironment of solid tumors. This mini review focuses on the various immunosuppressive strategies employed by the glioblastoma microenvironment for immune evasion, including stromal barriers, hypoxic conditions, immunosuppressive cytokines, downregulation of activating ligands, and upregulation of immune checkpoints. A range of emerging strategies has been proposed to counteract these inhibitory effects, such as genetic engineering of NK cells and molecular targeting of the stroma in combination with oncolytic virus therapy. Future single-cell spatiotemporal omics studies are expected to further enable a personalized and dynamic approach to treating glioblastoma with improved outcomes.

Indexed as

Brain NeoplasmsGlioblastomaImmunotherapy, AdoptiveKiller Cells, NaturalReceptors, Chimeric AntigenTumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsHumansReceptors, Chimeric Antigenchimeric antigen receptorglioblastomasimmunotherapymicroenvironmentnatural killer cell

Identifiers

PMID41403931
PMCPMC12702947

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