1. Targeted opening of the blood-brain barrier facilitates doxorubicin/anti-PD-1-based chemoimmunotherapy of glioblastoma.
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Pol JG, Lizarralde-Guerrero M, Checcoli A, and Kroemer G
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- Humans, Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors pharmacology, Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors therapeutic use, Animals, Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols therapeutic use, Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols pharmacology, Glioblastoma drug therapy, Glioblastoma pathology, Glioblastoma metabolism, Glioblastoma immunology, Blood-Brain Barrier metabolism, Blood-Brain Barrier drug effects, Doxorubicin pharmacology, Doxorubicin therapeutic use, Doxorubicin administration & dosage, Programmed Cell Death 1 Receptor antagonists & inhibitors, Programmed Cell Death 1 Receptor metabolism, Brain Neoplasms drug therapy, Brain Neoplasms pathology, Brain Neoplasms immunology, Brain Neoplasms metabolism, Brain Neoplasms therapy, Immunotherapy methods
- Abstract
Doxorubicin is a prototypical inducer of immunogenic cell death (ICD) that sensitizes to subsequent immunotherapy by PD-1 blockade. However, this systemic drug combination fails against glioblastoma, hidden behind the blood-brain barrier (BBB). A recent work delineates a biophysical method for BBB permeabilization that yields effective preclinical effects of chemoimmunotherapy., Competing Interests: J.G.P. is the inventor of patents covering the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of cancers, including patents licensed to Turnstone Biologics and Therafast Bio. GK has been holding research contracts with Daiichi Sankyo, Eleor, Kaleido, Lytix Pharma, PharmaMar, Osasuna Therapeutics, Samsara Therapeutics, Sanofi, Sutro, Tollys, and Vascage. GK is on the Board of Directors of the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation France. GK is a scientific co-founder of everImmune, Osasuna Therapeutics, Samsara Therapeutics, and Therafast Bio. GK is in the scientific advisory boards of Hevolution, Institut Servier, Longevity Vision Funds, and Rejuveron Life Sciences. GK is the inventor of patents covering therapeutic targeting of aging, cancer, cystic fibrosis, and metabolic disorders. GK’s wife, Laurence Zitvogel, has held research contracts with Glaxo Smyth Kline, Incyte, Lytix, Kaleido, Innovate Pharma, Daiichi Sankyo, Pilege, Merus, Transgene, 9 m, Tusk, and Roche, was on the Board of Directors of Transgene, is a cofounder of everImmune, and holds patents covering the treatment of cancer and the therapeutic manipulation of the microbiota. GK’s brother, Romano Kroemer, was an employee of Sanofi and now consults for Boehringer-Ingelheim. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results., (© 2024 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.)
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- 2024
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