Research progress in the role of CD38 in clinical tumor treatment.
ZHONG NAN DA XUE XUE BAO. YI XUE BAN = JOURNAL OF CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY. MEDICAL SCIENCES 2022;
47:952-959. [PMID:
36039593 PMCID:
PMC10930288 DOI:
10.11817/j.issn.1672-7347.2022.210351]
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Abstract
Tumor is one of the ten leading causes of death in the world. Traditional tumor treatments include surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. With the development of immune checkpoint blockade therapy targeting the programmed death 1/programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 (PD-1/PD-L1) axis, the number of cancers in solid tumors has increased. Changes in the immunometabolic microenvironment have been shown to be important regulators of innate suppression of immune cell function and acquired resistance to immunotherapy. As a new target, CD38 is an enzyme that produces immunosuppressive metabolites (such as adenosine), which can be used in combination with immunotherapy to improve the clinical efficacy of tumor therapy, and can also be used as an indicator for understanding tumor immunotherapy response.
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