INBRX-120, a CD8α-targeted detuned IL-2 that selectively expands and activates tumoricidal effector cells for safe and durable in vivo responses by Jason Ho, Chelsie Macedo, Garrett Cyprus, Rajay Pandit, Anya Polovina, Nadja Kern, Abrahim Hussain, Sae Jeong Ahn, William Crago, Emily Rowell, Florian J Sulzmaier, John C Timmer, Brendan P Eckelman

“…Preclinical safety, as well as pharmacodynamic (PD) and PK profiling was carried out in non-human primates.Results INBRX-120 effectively expanded and enhanced the cytotoxic capacity of CD8 T cells and natural killer cells towards tumor cells without affecting regulatory T cells in vitro and in vivo. …”
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LncRNAs in serum-derived extracellular vesicles are potential biomarker and correlated with immune infiltration in gastric cancer by Juan Ding, Yunyan Teng, Rongshu Cui, Jin Liu, Ke Xiao, Zhaogang Dong, Yi Zhang, Xiaofei Xu

“…Three lncRNAs were also significantly correlated with tumor diameter, lymphatic metastasis, distal metastasis, and TNM stage (all P < 0.05). …”
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Efecto de la pandemia en la cirugía radical del cáncer vesical by Jorge Salgado-Novoa, Dario Vázquez-Martul, Susana Rodríguez-Rey, Ana M. Fandiño-Argibay, Arlene Rodríguez-González, Alicia López-Fernández, Venancio Chantada-Abal

“…No se observan tampoco diferencias en la estadificación TNM de las piezas quirúrgicas. Los tumores localmente avanzados no aumentaron significativamente (18 vs. 21, p = 0,580). …”
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Single-cell profiling transcriptomic reveals cellular heterogeneity and cellular crosstalk in breast cancer lymphatic node, bone, and brain metastases by Longyu Zhu, Miaomiao Liu, Yuguang Shang, Jingge Cheng, Hongye Zhao, Jun Zhang, Dongxing Shen

“…Abstract Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor in the world, and its metastasis is the main cause of death in breast cancer patients. …”
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Targeted protein degradation through site-specific antibody conjugation with mannose 6-phosphate glycan by Kaori Mukai, Robert Cost, Xin Sheen Zhang, Emily Condiff, Joanne Cotton, Xiaohua Liu, Ekaterina Boudanova, Björn Niebel, Peter Piepenhagen, Xinming Cai, Anna Park, Qun Zhou

“…The M6P-conjugated antibody against a protein of interest (POI) efficiently internalized targeted soluble proteins, such as human tumor necrosis factor (TNF), in both cancer cell lines and human immune cells, through the endo-lysosomal pathway as demonstrated by confocal microscopy and flow cytometry. …”
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Disrupting of IGF2BP3-stabilized CLDN11 mRNA by TNF-α increases intestinal permeability in obesity-related severe acute pancreatitis by Lihui Lin, Yansong Lin, Xianwen Guo, Ruoyi Zhang, Xin Ling, Zewen Zhang, Rong Lin, Zhen Ding

“…The interaction between CLDN11 mRNA and insulin-like growth factor 2 mRNA-binding protein 3 (IGF2BP3) protein was predicted through bioinformatics analysis and validated by RNA immunoprecipitation and RNA pull-down assay. Additionally, tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) treatment in Caco-2 cells was conducted, and the IGF2BP3/CLDN11 axis was detected. …”
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Low-exhaustion peripheral circulating γδ T cells serve as a biomarker for predicting the clinical benefit rate of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients to chemotherapy or tar... by Dongdong Zhang, Guichao Liu, Jinhui Ye, Ke Li, Guojun Zhang, Qiang Quan, Xinhai Zhu, Peng Li

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Diversity in mitotic DNA repair efficiencies between commercial inbred maize lines and native Central American purple landraces by Carlos Víquez-Zamora, Sergio Castro-Pacheco, María Viñas, Pablo Bolaños-Villegas

“…High resolution melting analysis of the putative homologous DNA repair gene ZeaATM1 revealed that landraces P1 and P2 may harbor polymorphisms for this gene, and P1 may harbor other polymorphisms for the transcription factor ZeaSOG1 as well as the tumor suppressor ZeaRAD51 and recombinase ZeaBRCA1. …”
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Six MicroRNA Prognostic Models for Overall Survival of Lung Adenocarcinoma by Juan Li, Xuyu Gu, Chanchan Gao, Jun Zhang

“…The purpose of this study is to screen for microRNAs (miRNAs) associated with the prognosis of lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and to explore its prognosis and effects on the tumor microenvironment in patients with LUAD. Methods. …”
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HCV Eradication with Direct-Acting Antivirals Does Not Impact HCC Progression on the Waiting List or HCC Recurrence after Liver Transplantation by Juliet A. Emamaullee, Mariusz Bral, Glenda Meeberg, Aldo J. Montano-Loza, Vincent G. Bain, Kelly Warren Burak, David Bigam, A. M. James Shapiro, Norman Kneteman

“…Due to local HCC listing criteria of total tumor volume and AFP, 60% (N=18/30) of HCV+/HCC patients were beyond Milan criteria at the time of LT. …”
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Effects of Preoperative Sleep Disorders on Anesthesia Recovery and Postoperative Pain in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Gynecological Surgery under General Anesthesia by Sicong Yu, Yicheng Xiong, Guangtao Lu, Xiangqing Xiong

“…The changes of mean arterial pressure (MAP) and heart rate (HR) at different time points, operation time, anesthesia time, extubation time, the time when Aldrete score reached 10 points, visual analog score (VAS) serum interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-10 (IL-10), and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) were compared among different groups. …”
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CX3CR1+ age-associated CD4+ T cells contribute to synovial inflammation in late-onset rheumatoid arthritis by Mitsuhiro Akiyama, Sohma Wakasugi, Keiko Yoshimoto, Koichi Saito, Sho Ishigaki, Risa Inukai, Yoshiyuki Matsuno, Waleed Alshehri, Yasushi Kondo, Yuko Kaneko

“…The number of cells decreased after treatment with methotrexate, tumor necrosis factor inhibitors, and interleukin-6 inhibitors, whereas T-cell activation modulators did not affect them. …”
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Performance analysis of Leica Biosystems p16 monoclonal antibody in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma by Selvam Thavaraj, Max Robinson, Shubham Dayal, Claire Bowen

“…HPV 16’s E6 and E7 oncoproteins bind and inactivate p53 and retinoblastoma (Rb) tumor-suppressing genes. This causes aberrant over-expression of the cell cycle inhibitor gene, p16, leading to tumorigenesis. …”
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Immunologic and inflammatory consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection and its implications in renal disease by Hiam Naiditch, Michael R. Betts, H. Benjamin Larman, Moshe Levi, Avi Z. Rosenberg

“…Cytokines such as interleukin-1 (IL-1), IL-6, IL-12, and tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα), some of which may be produced through mechanisms involving nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB), likely contribute to the hyperinflammatory state in patients with severe COVID-19. …”
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Systemic Inflammatory Markers for Predicting Overall Survival in Patients with Osteosarcoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Xiaotong Song, Hao Zhang, Fanxing Yin, Panpan Guo, Xiaocheng Yang, Jinzhu Liu, Yanshuo Han, Zhaozhou Ren

“…Inflammatory markers are associated with tumor genesis and progression, but their prognostic significance in osteosarcoma remains unclear. …”
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Characterizing immune biomarkers and effector CD8+ T-cell exhaustion in pancreatic adenocarcinoma via single-cell RNA sequencing profiling by Rawaa AlChalabi, Raghda Makia, Semaa A. Shaban, Ahmed AbdulJabbar Suleiman

“…This exhaustion, driven by persistent immunosuppressive signals in the tumor microenvironment, impairs immune function and hinders effective immunotherapy. …”
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Novel pyroptosis-immune-related lncRNA signature exhibits a distinct immune cell infiltration landscape in breast cancer by Dedi Kong, Dedi Kong, Hongju Cheng, Meihong Wang

“…Immune scores were significantly enhanced in the LR group, whereas tumor purity was elevated in the HR group. Fifty-eight immune scores showed significant differences between the groups (P<0.05). …”
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TNF-α Enhances the Therapeutic Effects of MenSC-Derived Small Extracellular Vesicles on Inflammatory Bowel Disease through Macrophage Polarization by miR-24-3p by Huikang Xu, Jiamin Fu, Lijun Chen, Sining Zhou, Yangxin Fang, Qi Zhang, Xin Chen, Li Yuan, Yifei Li, Zhenyu Xu, Charlie Xiang

“…Hence, we explored the role of tumor necrosis factor α- (TNF-α-) pretreated MenSC-derived small EV (MenSCs-sEVTNF-α) in a mouse model of dextran sulfate sodium- (DSS-) induced colitis, expecting to find better therapeutic alterations. …”
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ArfGAP with the SH3 Domain, Ankyrin Repeat and PH Domain 1 Inversely Regulates Programmed Death-Ligand 1 Through Negative Feedback of Phosphorylated Epithelial Growth Factor Recept... by Chiba N, Menju T, Shimazu Y, Toyazaki T, Sumitomo R, Miyamoto H, Tamari S, Nishikawa S, Date H

“…Moreover, AMAP1 regulates of nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB), which is an important molecule in inflammation and immune activation, including tumor immune interaction through PD-L1 regulation. …”
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Geographical Differences in the Safety and Efficacy of Tofacitinib Versus TNFi: A Post Hoc Analysis of ORAL Surveillance by Bogdan Batko, Slawomir Jeka, Piotr Wiland, Agnieszka Zielińska, Maria Stopińska-Polaszewska, Marcin Stajszczyk, Magdalena Kosydar-Piechna, Mary Jane Cadatal, Jose L. Rivas

“…Here, we evaluated the safety and efficacy of tofacitinib versus tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) among patients with RA across geographical regions. …”
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