EXTH-70. IMMUNOTHERAPY REVERSES GLIOMA-DRIVEN DYSFUNCTION OF IMMUNE SYSTEM HOMEOSTASIS

Immune-Checkpoint Blockade and Active Immunotherapy for Glioma

Cancer immunotherapy has made tremendous progress, including promising results in patients with malignant gliomas. Nonetheless, the immunological microenvironment of the brain and tumors arising therein is still believed to be suboptimal for sufficient antitumor immune responses for a variety of reasons, including the operation of "immune-checkpoint" mechanisms. While these mechanisms prevent a...

COVID-19: The potential role of nutritional deficiencies, global climatic changes, and immune system dysfunction

Targeting Multiple-Myeloma-Induced Immune Dysfunction to Improve Immunotherapy Outcomes

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a plasma cell malignancy associated with high levels of monoclonal (M) protein in the blood and/or serum. MM can occur de novo or evolve from benign monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). Current translational research into MM focuses on the development of combination therapies directed against molecularly defined targets and that are aimed at achiev...

Chaperones and Glioma Immunotherapy

Molecular chaperones, also known as heat-shock proteins or HSPs, are a functionally conserved class of proteins whose primary function is to keep cellular proteins in their native conformation, under both physiological and stress conditions. In most cases these chaperones do not participate in the final mature structures that their ‘clients’ form. Apart from folding, chaperones play vital roles...

Immunotherapy for malignant glioma

Malignant gliomas (MG) are the most common type of primary malignant brain tumor. Most patients diagnosed with glioblastoma (GBM), the most common and malignant glial tumor, die within 12-15 months. Moreover, conventional treatment, which includes surgery followed by radiation and chemotherapy, can be highly toxic by causing nonspecific damage to healthy brain and other tissues. The shortcoming...