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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2026

Reprogramming adoptive cell therapy for osteosarcoma: engineering, vaccination, and tumor microenvironment remodeling.

Shiguo Zuo, Na Cheng, Zhiying Hou, Yilong Yang, Quanliang Tian, Yisheng Xu

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Shiguo Zuo *Department of Spine Surgery, Qianxinan Autonomous Prefecture Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xingyi, Guizhou, China.
Na Cheng *Department of Psychology, Xijing Hospital 986 Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Zhiying HouDepartment of Spine Surgery, Qianxinan Autonomous Prefecture Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xingyi, Guizhou, China.
Yilong YangDepartment of Spine Surgery, Qianxinan Autonomous Prefecture Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xingyi, Guizhou, China.
Quanliang TianDepartment of Spine Surgery, Qianxinan Autonomous Prefecture Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xingyi, Guizhou, China.
Yisheng XuDepartment of Orthopedics, Qianxinan Autonomous Prefecture Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xingyi, Guizhou, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Osteosarcoma remains a major treatment challenge, especially for patients with recurrent, refractory or metastatic diseases. Adoptive cell therapy (ACT), including CAR-T cells, TCR engineered T cells, CAR-NK cells and macrophage based cell therapy, provides a promising strategy for redirecting immune effector cells to fight osteosarcoma. However, clinical translation has been limited by antigen heterogeneity, on-target/off-tumor toxicity, insufficient tumor trafficking, poor persistence, functional exhaustion, and the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment. This mini review discusses emerging innovations designed to overcome these safety and efficacy barriers. First, engineering strategies such as multi-antigen recognition, logic-gated CAR systems, suicide switches, transient CAR expression, armored cytokine circuits, checkpoint-resistant designs, and chemokine receptor modification may improve precision, controllability, and durability. Second, vaccination approaches may serve as programmable amplifiers of ACT by promoting

Indexed as

Bone NeoplasmsCancer VaccinesImmunotherapy, AdoptiveOsteosarcomaTumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsHumansReceptors, Chimeric AntigenVaccinationCancer VaccinesReceptors, Chimeric Antigenadoptive cell therapyantigen heterogeneityCAR-T cellscellular engineeringimmunotherapyosteosarcomatumor microenvironmentvaccination

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PMID42327724
PMCPMC13279695

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