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  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,590 Views
13 Pages

Cardiotoxicity of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell (CAR-T) Therapy: Pathophysiology, Clinical Implications, and Echocardiographic Assessment

  • Antonio Nenna,
  • Myriam Carpenito,
  • Camilla Chello,
  • Pierluigi Nappi,
  • Ombretta Annibali,
  • Bruno Vincenzi,
  • Francesco Grigioni,
  • Massimo Chello and
  • Francesco Nappi

Contemporary anticancer immunotherapy with chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy has dramatically changed the treatment of many hematologic malignancies previously associated with poor prognosis. The clinical improvement and the survival b...

  • Review
  • Open Access
64 Citations
11,090 Views
23 Pages

Cell Therapy for Colorectal Cancer: The Promise of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-T Cells

  • Cristina Aparicio,
  • Marina Belver,
  • Lucía Enríquez,
  • Francisco Espeso,
  • Lucía Núñez,
  • Ana Sánchez,
  • Miguel Ángel de la Fuente and
  • Margarita González-Vallinas

29 October 2021

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a global public health problem as it is the third most prevalent and the second most lethal cancer worldwide. Major efforts are underway to understand its molecular pathways as well as to define the tumour-associated antige...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,440 Views
8 Pages

30 July 2024

Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy uses genetically engineered T-cells with specific binding sites. This therapy allows for tumor specificity and durable treatment responses for patients with hematological malignancies. In this review,...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
60 Citations
4,395 Views
6 Pages

Although chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has shown a high response rate in lymphoma patients, its cost-effectiveness is controversial due to the high price and uncertainty of the clinical evidence. In addition to the high acquisition c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
717 Views
13 Pages

2 November 2025

Background: B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)-targeted chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy has demonstrated substantial efficacy in relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma. While toxicities such as cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
1,670 Views
17 Pages

28 August 2025

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell infusion has led to improved outcomes in patients with B-lymphoblastic leukemia, B-cell lymphoma, and multiple myeloma. The spectrum of post-CAR T-cell hematolymphoid abnormalities is expanding, although they re...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,896 Views
29 Pages

22 April 2024

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has become a powerful treatment option in B-cell and plasma cell malignancies, and many patients have benefited from its use. To date, six CAR T-cell products have been approved by the FDA and EMA, and m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,139 Views
15 Pages

To improve the efficacy and safety of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-expressing T cell therapeutics through enhanced CAR design, we analysed CAR structural factors that affect CAR-T cell function. We studied the effects of disulphide bonding at cyst...

  • Review
  • Open Access
79 Citations
11,471 Views
10 Pages

18 July 2017

Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cells are T-cells with recombinant receptors targeted to tumor antigens. CAR-T cell therapy has emerged as a mode of immunotherapy and is now being extensively explored in hematologic cancer. In contrast, CAR-T cell...

  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
8,648 Views
21 Pages

The New Frontier of Immunotherapy: Chimeric Antigen Receptor T (CAR-T) Cell and Macrophage (CAR-M) Therapy against Breast Cancer

  • Giuseppe Schepisi,
  • Caterina Gianni,
  • Michela Palleschi,
  • Sara Bleve,
  • Chiara Casadei,
  • Cristian Lolli,
  • Laura Ridolfi,
  • Giovanni Martinelli and
  • Ugo De Giorgi

4 March 2023

Breast cancer represents one of the most common tumor histologies. To date, based on the specific histotype, different therapeutic strategies, including immunotherapies, capable of prolonging survival are used. More recently, the astonishing results...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,416 Views
10 Pages

27 April 2022

Immunotherapy has revolutionized the care of cancer patients. A diverse set of strategies to overcome cancer immunosuppression and enhance the tumor-directed immune response are in clinical use, but have not achieved transformative benefits for brain...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,842 Views
17 Pages

FDG-PET in Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell (CAR T-Cell) Therapy Toxicity: A Systematic Review

  • Akram Al-Ibraheem,
  • Ahmed Saad Abdlkadir,
  • Egesta Lopci,
  • Sudqi Allouzi,
  • Diana Paez,
  • Maryam Alkuwari,
  • Mohammad Makoseh,
  • Fuad Novruzov,
  • Sharjeel Usmani and
  • Asem Mansour
  • + 1 author

29 April 2024

The utilization of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy to target cluster of differentiation (CD)19 in cancer immunotherapy has been a recent and significant advancement. Although this approach is highly specific and selective, it is not wi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,816 Views
36 Pages

1 December 2021

In the past decade, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell technology has revolutionized cancer immunotherapy. This strategy uses synthetic CARs to redirect the patient’s own immune cells to recognize specific antigens expressed on the surface...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,407 Views
22 Pages

Immunotherapy and Its Development for Gynecological (Ovarian, Endometrial and Cervical) Tumors: From Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors to Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-T Cell Therapy

  • Giuseppe Schepisi,
  • Chiara Casadei,
  • Ilaria Toma,
  • Giulia Poti,
  • Maria Laura Iaia,
  • Alberto Farolfi,
  • Vincenza Conteduca,
  • Cristian Lolli,
  • Giorgia Ravaglia and
  • Ugo De Giorgi
  • + 3 authors

17 February 2021

Gynecological tumors are malignancies with both high morbidity and mortality. To date, only a few chemotherapeutic agents have shown efficacy against these cancer types (only ovarian cancer responds to several agents, especially platinum-based combin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,237 Views
14 Pages

24 March 2024

HHV-6B reactivation affects approximately half of all allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) recipients. HHV-6B is the most frequent infectious cause of encephalitis following HCT and is associated with pleiotropic manifestations in this sett...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,997 Views
13 Pages

Rapidly Manufactured CAR-T with Conserved Cell Stemness and Distinctive Cytokine-Secreting Profile Shows Improved Anti-Tumor Efficacy

  • Shih-Ting Tsao,
  • Mingyuan Gu,
  • Qinghui Xiong,
  • Yingzhi Deng,
  • Tian Deng,
  • Chengbing Fu,
  • Zihao Zhao,
  • Haoyu Zhang,
  • Cuicui Liu and
  • Haiying Wang
  • + 3 authors

28 November 2024

Background: The emergence of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) immunotherapy holds great promise in treating hematologic malignancies. While advancements in CAR design have enhanced therapeutic efficacy, the time-consuming manufacturing proces...

  • Review
  • Open Access
113 Citations
29,670 Views
68 Pages

The concepts for T-cell redirecting bispecific antibodies (TRBAs) and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells are both at least 30 years old but both platforms are just now coming into age. Two TRBAs and two CAR-T cell products have been approved by...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,156 Views
21 Pages

9 February 2025

Pancreatic cancer has the lowest 5-year survival rate (13%) among major cancers and is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. The high lethality of this cancer is attributed to its insidious onset, late-stage diagnosis...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3,482 Views
16 Pages

CAR-T Cell Therapy in Autoimmune Diseases: Promise, Progress, and Pitfalls

  • Alessandro Conforti,
  • Carlos Cifuentes-González,
  • Alarico Ariani,
  • Alberto Lo Gullo and
  • Rupesh Agrawal

31 October 2025

Background: Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR-T) cell therapy has revolutionized cancer treatment and is now being explored as a novel approach to treat refractory autoimmune diseases by targeting autoreactive immune components, especially B cell...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3,892 Views
16 Pages

CAR-T in the Treatment of Solid Tumors—A Review of Current Research and Future Perspectives

  • Natalia Picheta,
  • Julia Piekarz,
  • Karolina Daniłowska,
  • Katarzyna Szklener and
  • Sławomir Mańdziuk

28 September 2025

The aim of this narrative review is to present the current state of knowledge regarding the use of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy in solid tumors. Phase I clinical trials and side effects are discussed. The review is based on an ana...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,755 Views
21 Pages

15 May 2023

Chimeric Antigen Receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy has dramatically changed prognosis and treatment of relapsed and refractory hematologic malignancies. Currently the 6 FDA approved products target various surface antigens. While CAR-T therapy achieves...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,556 Views
17 Pages

20 January 2025

T-cell redirecting therapies, which include chimeric antigen receptor T-cells (CAR-Ts) and bispecific antibodies (BSAs), have revolutionized the treatment of relapsed\refractory large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL). Expanding clinical experience with these a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,956 Views
17 Pages

18 March 2023

Cellular therapies can be viewed as both the newest and oldest techniques for treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and Richter’s transformation (RT). On one hand, allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT) has been ava...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,329 Views
15 Pages

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cells (CAR-T) are improving outcomes in pediatric and adult patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemias and subtypes of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. As this treatment is being increasingly utilized,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,918 Views
24 Pages

29 September 2024

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy has revolutionized the treatment for relapsed/refractory B-cell lymphomas. Despite its success, this therapy is accompanied by a significant frequency of adverse events, including cytokine release synd...

  • Review
  • Open Access
92 Citations
9,316 Views
11 Pages

Cytopenia after CAR-T Cell Therapy—A Brief Review of a Complex Problem

  • Naman Sharma,
  • Patrick M. Reagan and
  • Jane L. Liesveld

15 March 2022

Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR-T) immunotherapy has emerged as an efficacious and life extending treatment modality with high response rates and durable remissions in patients with relapsed and refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), follicular...

  • Review
  • Open Access
91 Citations
13,002 Views
17 Pages

A Review of Clinical Outcomes of CAR T-Cell Therapies for B-Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

  • Massimo Martino,
  • Caterina Alati,
  • Filippo Antonio Canale,
  • Gerardo Musuraca,
  • Giovanni Martinelli and
  • Claudio Cerchione

21 February 2021

Introduction: Treatment of relapsed and refractory (R/R) B acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) represents an unmet medical need in children and adults. Adoptive T cells engineered to express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) is emerging as an effe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,451 Views
14 Pages

23 July 2023

Lung cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and worldwide. The introduction of immune checkpoint inhibitors has led to a marked improvement in the outcomes of lung cancer patients. Despite these advances, there is a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,884 Views
21 Pages

The Emerging Role of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells as Adoptive Cellular Immunotherapeutics

  • Vedika Mehra,
  • Jyoti Bikram Chhetri,
  • Samira Ali and
  • Claire Roddie

11 November 2023

Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) has transformed the treatment landscape for cancer and infectious disease through the investigational use of chimeric antigen receptor T-cells (CAR-Ts), tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and viral-specific T-cells (VS...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,393 Views
20 Pages

Gene Targets of CAR-T Cell Therapy for Glioblastoma

  • Chaoqun Wang,
  • Yuntao Li,
  • Lijuan Gu,
  • Ran Chen,
  • Hua Zhu,
  • Xu Zhang,
  • Yonggang Zhang,
  • Shi Feng,
  • Sheng Qiu and
  • Xiaoxing Xiong
  • + 1 author

18 April 2023

Glioblastoma (GBM) is an aggressive primary brain tumor with a poor prognosis following conventional therapeutic interventions. Moreover, the blood–brain barrier (BBB) severely impedes the permeation of chemotherapy drugs, thereby reducing thei...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,641 Views
13 Pages

29 August 2017

Evidences are accumulating that CD4+ T cells can physiologically mediate antigen specific target cell lysis. By circumventing major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-restrictions through an engineered chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), CD4+ T cells lyse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
173 Citations
11,832 Views
17 Pages

CAR T-Cells Targeting the Integrin αvβ6 and Co-Expressing the Chemokine Receptor CXCR2 Demonstrate Enhanced Homing and Efficacy against Several Solid Malignancies

  • Lynsey M. Whilding,
  • Leena Halim,
  • Benjamin Draper,
  • Ana C. Parente-Pereira,
  • Tomasz Zabinski,
  • David Marc Davies and
  • John Maher

14 May 2019

Despite the unprecedented clinical success of chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) T-cells against haematological malignancy, solid tumors impose a far greater challenge to success. Largely, this stems from an inadequate capacity of CAR T-cells that can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,038 Views
16 Pages

8 September 2017

Breast cancer is a common malignancy among women. The innate and adaptive immune responses failed to be activated owing to immune modulation in the tumour microenvironment. Decades of scientific study links the overexpression of human epidermal growt...

  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
10,767 Views
26 Pages

Challenges of Anti-Mesothelin CAR-T-Cell Therapy

  • Xuejia Zhai,
  • Ling Mao,
  • Min Wu,
  • Jie Liu and
  • Shicang Yu

21 February 2023

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T-cell therapy is a kind of adoptive T-cell therapy (ACT) that has developed rapidly in recent years. Mesothelin (MSLN) is a tumor-associated antigen (TAA) that is highly expressed in various solid tumors and is an imp...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,910 Views
14 Pages

Current and Future Perspectives for Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells Development in Poland

  • Tomasz J. Ślebioda,
  • Marcin Stanisławowski,
  • Lucyna Kaszubowska,
  • Jan M. Zaucha and
  • Michał A. Żmijewski

13 November 2022

Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cells are genetically modified autologous T cells that have revolutionized the treatment of relapsing and refractory haematological malignancies. In this review we present molecular pathways involved in the activat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,980 Views
13 Pages

Targeting CAR to the Peptide-MHC Complex Reveals Distinct Signaling Compared to That of TCR in a Jurkat T Cell Model

  • Ling Wu,
  • Joanna Brzostek,
  • Shvetha Sankaran,
  • Qianru Wei,
  • Jiawei Yap,
  • Triscilla Y.Y. Tan,
  • Junyun Lai,
  • Paul A. MacAry and
  • Nicholas R. J. Gascoigne

18 February 2021

Chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR-T) utilize T cell receptor (TCR) signaling cascades and the recognition functions of antibodies. This allows T cells, normally restricted by the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), to be redirected to target...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3,254 Views
45 Pages

CAR-T Cell Therapy for Prostate Cancer: Current Advances and Future Perspectives

  • Maria Luisa Calabrò,
  • Roberta Ettari,
  • Carla Di Chio,
  • Fabiola De Luca,
  • Santo Previti and
  • Maria Zappalà

Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed solid-organ malignancy in men worldwide. Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer represents a rapidly fatal, end-stage form of the disease for which current therapies remain palliative rather t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,162 Views
16 Pages

Allogeneic stem cell transplant (ASCT) remains the only treatment option for patients with high-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Recurrence of leukemic cells after ASCT represents a dramatic event associated with a dismal outcome, with a 2-year sur...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,255 Views
19 Pages

1 September 2025

Background: Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) and chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy have markedly improved survival in pediatric patients with hematological malignancies. However, these treatments cause profound immunosuppressio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,494 Views
14 Pages

Binding and Efficacy of Anti-Robo4 CAR-T Cells against Solid Tumors

  • Sachiko Hirobe,
  • Seina Nagai,
  • Masashi Tachibana and
  • Naoki Okada

Chimeric antigen receptor expression T (CAR-T) cell therapy has been shown be efficacious against relapsed/refractory B-cell malignant lymphoma and has attracted attention as an innovative cancer treatment. However, cells of solid tumors are less acc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,706 Views
24 Pages

Knowns and Unknowns about CAR-T Cell Dysfunction

  • Aleksei Titov,
  • Yaroslav Kaminskiy,
  • Irina Ganeeva,
  • Ekaterina Zmievskaya,
  • Aygul Valiullina,
  • Aygul Rakhmatullina,
  • Alexey Petukhov,
  • Regina Miftakhova,
  • Albert Rizvanov and
  • Emil Bulatov

21 February 2022

Immunotherapy using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells is a promising option for cancer treatment. However, T cells and CAR-T cells frequently become dysfunctional in cancer, where numerous evasion mechanisms impair antitumor immunity. Cancer fr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,348 Views
14 Pages

Modular Chimeric Antigen Receptor Systems for Universal CAR T Cell Retargeting

  • Ashley R. Sutherland,
  • Madeline N. Owens and
  • C. Ronald Geyer

30 September 2020

The engineering of T cells through expression of chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) against tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) has shown significant potential for use as an anti-cancer therapeutic. The development of strategies for flexible and modular...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,303 Views
14 Pages

Crystal Structure of a Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) scFv Domain Rearrangement Forming a VL-VL Dimer

  • Jonah Cheung,
  • Shagun Wazir,
  • David R. Bell,
  • James N. Kochenderfer,
  • Wayne A. Hendrickson and
  • Philippe Youkharibache

21 April 2023

Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR-T) immunotherapies are dependent upon designed transmembrane proteins to bind target antigens and stimulate an immune response. The success or failure of these CARs is only partially predictable, yet recent work...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,984 Views
12 Pages

Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-engineered T (CAR-T) cell therapy represents a highly promising modality within the domain of cancer treatment. CAR-T cell therapy has demonstrated notable efficacy in the treatment of hematological malignancies, solid...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
8,007 Views
25 Pages

Treatment-Related Adverse Events of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell (CAR T) in Clinical Trials: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  • Wen Lei,
  • Mixue Xie,
  • Qi Jiang,
  • Nengwen Xu,
  • Ping Li,
  • Aibin Liang,
  • Ken H. Young and
  • Wenbin Qian

3 August 2021

Chimeric antigen receptors T (CAR-T) cell therapy of cancer is a rapidly evolving field. It has been shown to be remarkably effective in cases of hematological malignancies, and its approval by the FDA has significantly increased the enthusiasm for w...

  • Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
7,734 Views
19 Pages

16 November 2022

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are an exciting advancement in cancer immunotherapy, with striking success in hematological cancers. However, in solid tumors, the unique immunosuppressive elements of the tumor microenvironment (TME) contribut...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
20,427 Views
10 Pages

Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cell Therapy for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM)

  • Astero Klampatsa,
  • Andrew R. Haas,
  • Edmund K. Moon and
  • Steven M. Albelda

1 September 2017

Cancer immunotherapy has now become a recognized approach to treating cancers. In addition to checkpoint blockade, adoptive T cell transfer (ACT) using chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) has shown impressive clinical outcomes in leukemias and is now b...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
5,257 Views
24 Pages

Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy in Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer

  • Mahasha P.J. Perera,
  • Patrick B. Thomas,
  • Gail P. Risbridger,
  • Renea Taylor,
  • Arun Azad,
  • Michael S. Hofman,
  • Elizabeth D. Williams and
  • Ian Vela

20 January 2022

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed solid-organ cancer amongst males worldwide. Metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) is a rapidly fatal end-sequelae of prostate cancer. Therapeutic options for men with mCRPC are limited an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,030 Views
18 Pages

Expanding the Horizons of CAR-T Cell Therapy: A Review of Therapeutic Targets Across Diverse Diseases

  • Alejandrina Hernández-López,
  • Alberto Olaya-Vargas,
  • Juan Carlos Bustamante-Ogando and
  • Angélica Meneses-Acosta

24 January 2025

CAR-T cell therapy has shown promising results in treating malignant hematologic diseases. The principle of this therapy is based on the use of genetically modified T lymphocytes to express a Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) on their membrane that spe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
10,389 Views
25 Pages

Engineering Next-Generation CAR-T Cells for Better Toxicity Management

  • Alain E. Andrea,
  • Andrada Chiron,
  • Stéphanie Bessoles and
  • Salima Hacein-Bey-Abina

16 November 2020

Immunoadoptive therapy with genetically modified T lymphocytes expressing chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) has revolutionized the treatment of patients with hematologic cancers. Although clinical outcomes in B-cell malignancies are impressive, resea...

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