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Targeted drug treatment leads tumor cells to imitate viral infection

Broad Institute

Targeted drug treatment leads tumor cells to imitate viral infection By Ari Navetta July 11, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Targeted drug treatment leads tumor cells to imitate viral infection Exploiting "viral mimicry," mIDH1 inhibitors trick tumors into thinking they are infected with a virus.

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Q&A: How a partnership between physicians and researchers aims to make cancer drugs safer

Broad Institute

These patients had been given the revolutionary immunotherapy drugs known as immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), which take the brakes off the body’s immune system so that it can fight cancer. With immunotherapy, it awakens your immune system in a way that’s like a fire in a bush — it doesn’t stop.

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Study reveals how cancer immunotherapy may cause heart inflammation in some patients

Broad Institute

By Leah Eisenstadt November 6, 2024 Credit: Ricardo Job-Reese, Broad Communications Despite being one of the rarer complications from immune checkpoint inhibitors, myocarditis is the most deadly. In addition, treatments and supportive care approaches used for other forms of myocarditis, such as viral myocarditis, don’t work for this type.

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Involvement of extracellular vesicles in the proinflammatory response to clozapine: implications for clozapine-induced agranulocytosis [Toxicology]

ASPET

Most idiosyncratic drug reactions (IDRs) appear to be immune-mediated, but mechanistic events preceding severe reaction onset remain poorly defined. Moreover, treatment of drug-naïve THP-1 cells with clozapine-exposed EVs induced an inflammasome-dependent response, supporting a potential role for EVs in immune activation.

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’1104: tackling the root cause of allergic disease

Drug Target Review

Additionally, ‘1104 increases the number of activated regulatory T and B cells, which help modulate the immune response and maintain immune tolerance, preventing the immune system from entering overdrive. As such, ‘1104 uniquely affects both the effector and regulatory arms of the immune response.

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4-1BB and the critical importance of local control

SugarCone Biotech

Targeting 4-1BB remained of interest to the immuno-oncology field as cell culture experiments and tumor models in mice suggested that robust anti-tumor immune responses could be triggered by anti-4-1BB antibody therapies. This is the T cell type most closely associated with anti-tumor immune responses.

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Opdivo (nivolumab) with Chemotherapy as Neoadjuvant Treatment for Resectable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

The Pharma Data

Application based on CheckMate -816, the only Phase 3 trial to demonstrate improved event-free survival and pathologic complete response with an immunotherapy-based combination in the neoadjuvant setting of NSCLC. Opdivo -based treatments have shown clinical benefit in four Phase 3 trials in earlier stages of cancer.