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A bedside to bench study of anti-PD-1, anti-CD40, and anti-CSF1R indicates that more is not necessarily better
Djureinovic D, Weiss S, Krykbaeva I, Qu R, Vathiotis I, Moutafi M, Zhang L, Perdigoto A, Wei W, Anderson G, Damsky W, Hurwitz M, Johnson B, Schoenfeld D, Mahajan A, Hsu F, Miller-Jensen K, Kluger Y, Sznol M, Kaech S, Bosenberg M, Jilaveanu L, Kluger H. A bedside to bench study of anti-PD-1, anti-CD40, and anti-CSF1R indicates that more is not necessarily better. Molecular Cancer 2023, 22: 182. PMID: 37964379, PMCID: PMC10644655, DOI: 10.1186/s12943-023-01884-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStable diseasePartial responseMacrophage populationsThree-drug regimenUnconfirmed partial responsePhase I trialLimited treatment optionsMonocyte/macrophage populationNon-classical monocytesMurine melanoma modelTreatment-related changesResultsThirteen patientsWorse survivalI trialInflammatory tumorPatient populationTreatment optionsImmune cellsDisease progressionMurine studiesPreclinical modelsResistant melanomaAntigen presentationMurine modelCyTOF analysis
2023
Expression of cancer–testis antigens in the immune microenvironment of non‐small cell lung cancer
Hikmet F, Rassy M, Backman M, Méar L, Mattsson J, Djureinovic D, Botling J, Brunnström H, Micke P, Lindskog C. Expression of cancer–testis antigens in the immune microenvironment of non‐small cell lung cancer. Molecular Oncology 2023, 17: 2603-2617. PMID: 37341056, PMCID: PMC10701773, DOI: 10.1002/1878-0261.13474.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-small cell lung cancerCancer-testis antigensCell lung cancerImmune microenvironmentLung cancerT cellsCTA expressionAnti-cancer immune responseMost NSCLC casesEfficacy of immunotherapyPlasma cell infiltrationRegulatory T cellsImmune cell densityCellular immune reactionsNSCLC patientsImmune profileClinical outcomesNSCLC casesCell infiltrationImmune cellsImmunohistochemical profilingM2 macrophagesClinical dataImmune responseImmune reactionsPeripheral blood immune cell and cytokine profiling of patients receiving corticosteroids for immune checkpoint inhibitor-related adverse events: Steroid dose and duration.
Merkin R, Schoenfeld D, Djureinovic D, Austin M, Wang M, Qu R, Zhang L, Mann J, Wei W, Sun L, Aizenbud L, Destina J, Kluger H. Peripheral blood immune cell and cytokine profiling of patients receiving corticosteroids for immune checkpoint inhibitor-related adverse events: Steroid dose and duration. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2023, 41: e14694-e14694. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2023.41.16_suppl.e14694.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchImmune-related adverse eventsImmune checkpoint inhibitorsSevere immune-related adverse eventsPeripheral blood immune cellsBlood immune cellsSteroid therapyDose levelsSteroid taperAdverse eventsIL-6Immune cellsImmune checkpoint inhibitor-related adverse eventsSeverity of irAEsMultiple immune-related adverse eventsAnti-PD-1 therapyT effector memory cellsPeripheral blood mononuclear cellsYale Cancer CenterSerum cytokine concentrationsEffector memory cellsPathogenic T cellsBlood mononuclear cellsConcentrations of TNFαBiomarkers of responseT cell subtypes
2021
Infiltration of NK and plasma cells is associated with a distinct immune subset in non‐small cell lung cancer
Backman M, La Fleur L, Kurppa P, Djureinovic D, Elfving H, Brunnström H, Mattsson J, Lindberg A, Pontén V, Eltahir M, Mangsbo S, Gulyas M, Isaksson J, Jirström K, Kärre K, Leandersson K, Mezheyeuski A, Pontén F, Strell C, Lindskog C, Botling J, Micke P. Infiltration of NK and plasma cells is associated with a distinct immune subset in non‐small cell lung cancer. The Journal Of Pathology 2021, 255: 243-256. PMID: 34339045, DOI: 10.1002/path.5772.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-small cell lung cancerImmune cell infiltrationHigh immune cell infiltrationCell infiltrationNK cellsImmune classPlasma cellsLow immune cell infiltrationEra of immunotherapyCell lung cancerImmune cell markersTumor mutational loadImmune response-related genesInnate immune responseImmune cell analysisClinicopathologic characteristicsPD-L1Immune activationImmune classificationNSCLC casesImmune patternsLung cancerImmune cellsClinical backgroundImmune response
2018
Multispectral imaging for quantitative and compartment‐specific immune infiltrates reveals distinct immune profiles that classify lung cancer patients
Mezheyeuski A, Bergsland C, Backman M, Djureinovic D, Sjöblom T, Bruun J, Micke P. Multispectral imaging for quantitative and compartment‐specific immune infiltrates reveals distinct immune profiles that classify lung cancer patients. The Journal Of Pathology 2018, 244: 421-431. PMID: 29282718, DOI: 10.1002/path.5026.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsBiomarkers, TumorCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungClinical Decision-MakingDeep LearningFluorescent Antibody TechniqueHumansImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedLung NeoplasmsLymphocyte SubsetsLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingMicroscopy, FluorescencePredictive Value of TestsPrognosisReproducibility of ResultsSequence Analysis, RNATissue Array AnalysisTumor MicroenvironmentConceptsImmune infiltratesImmune markersImmune cellsImmunohistochemical methodsEra of immunotherapyCell lung cancerImmune cell infiltrationLymphocyte subclassesNSCLC casesCell infiltrationLung cancerPatient prognosisImmune responseTissue microarrayCancer tissuesStromal compartmentClinical decisionFurther subpopulationSemiquantitative assessmentConventional immunohistochemistryImmunohistochemistryClinical biopsiesTissue sectionsFoxp3CD4