Annals of Hepatology, 2008 Current oncolytic virotherapy strategies are based in the accumulated understanding of the common molecular mechanisms displayed during cell transformation and viral infection, like cell cycle and apoptosis deregulations.
Ortiz-López Rocio +1 more
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Delivery and Biosafety of Oncolytic Virotherapy [PDF]
Frontiers in Oncology, 2020 In recent years, oncolytic virotherapy has emerged as a promising anticancer therapy. Oncolytic viruses destroy cancer cells, without damaging normal tissues, through virus self-replication and antitumor immunity responses, showing great potential for ...
Bin Tang, Duoduo Han
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Oncolytic Virotherapy for Melanoma Brain Metastases, a Potential New Treatment Paradigm?
Brain Sciences, 2021 Introduction: Melanoma brain metastases remain a devastating disease process with poor prognosis. Recently, there has been a surge in studies demonstrating the efficacy of oncolytic virotherapy for brain tumor treatment.
Turki Elarjani +2 more
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Combination of oncolytic viruses and immune checkpoint inhibitors for treatment of high-grade gliomas [PDF]
Frontiers in NeurologyHigh-grade gliomas (HGG) such as glioblastoma are the most aggressive primary malignancies of the central nervous system. The median overall survival of glioblastoma is <15 months despite treatment with surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy ...
Zhihong Qian +4 more
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Pharmaceutics, 2022 Oncolytic virotherapy is a type of nanomedicine with a dual antitumor mechanism. Viruses are engineered to selectively infect and lyse cancer cells directly, leading to the release of soluble antigens which induce systemic antitumor immunity ...
Andreas E Albers, Meiyu Fang, Xu Qian
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The Multifaceted Role of Macrophages in Oncolytic Virotherapy
Viruses, 2021 One of the cancer hallmarks is immune evasion mediated by the tumour microenvironment (TME). Oncolytic virotherapy is a form of immunotherapy based on the application of oncolytic viruses (OVs) that selectively replicate in and induce the death of tumour
Martine Lamfers +2 more
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Comparative safety and efficacy of oncolytic virotherapy for the treatment of individuals with malignancies: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and Bayesian network meta-analysisResearch in context [PDF]
EClinicalMedicineSummary: Background: Oncolytic virotherapy (OV) is an innovative immunotherapy strategy. A comprehensive understanding of oncolytic viruses is essential for advancing research and clinical practice.
Poyee Lau +4 more
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Small Hero with Great Powers: Vaccinia Virus E3 Protein and Evasion of the Type I IFN Response
Biomedicines, 2022 Poxviridae have developed a plethora of strategies to evade innate and adaptive immunity. In this review, we focused on the vaccinia virus E3 protein, encoded by the E3L gene. E3 is present within the Chordopoxvirinae subfamily (with the exception of the
Mateusz Szczerba +5 more
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Evaluation of a toxoid fusion protein vaccine produced in plants to protect poultry against necrotic enteritis [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Background Necrotic enteritis (NE) is caused by type A strains of the bacterium Clostridium perfringens. Total global economic losses to the poultry industry due to NE is estimated to be over two billion dollars annually.
Joseph G.L. Hunter +7 more
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Oncolytic Measles Virus Encoding MicroRNA for Targeted RNA Interference
Viruses, 2023 Virotherapy is a promising, novel form of cancer immunotherapy currently being investigated in pre-clinical and clinical settings. While generally well-tolerated, the anti-tumor potency of oncolytic virus-based monotherapies needs to be improved further.
Sophie C. Anker +7 more
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