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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2025

CCR2 improves tumor directed CAR-T cell trafficking in ovarian cancer.

Raj Kumar, Irva E Veillard, Mengyao Xu, Linah Al-Alem, Bo R Rueda, Oladapo O Yeku

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 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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6 authors.

Raj KumarMassachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA, United States.
Irva E VeillardMassachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA, United States.
Mengyao XuMassachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA, United States.
Linah Al-AlemMeigs Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Vincent Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
Bo R RuedaMeigs Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Vincent Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
Oladapo O YekuMassachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.

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Abstract

Solid tumors present a significant challenge to Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) -T cell therapy, primarily due to limited T-cell infiltration and persistence in the tumor microenvironment. Cancers with predominantly peritoneal metastasis like ovarian cancer pose a substantial trafficking challenge to systemically administered CAR-T cell therapy. To identify chemokines that may guide CAR-T cells to tumor sites, we evaluated chemokine expression in primary and metastatic tumor samples from patients with ovarian cancer by immunohistochemistry. After identifying CCL2 as the most common chemokine expressed in both primary and metastatic disease, we validated CCL2 levels in serum samples from these patients. We found that CCL2 and CCL4 were commonly expressed in several ovarian cancer cell lines, a patient-derived tumor cell line and patient serum samples

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armed CAR-T cellsCAR-T cellschemokineschimeric antigen receptor T-cellsMUC16ovarian cancer

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PMID41424784
PMCPMC12714929

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