ReviewCancers2024
B7H4 Role in Solid Cancers: A Review of the Literature.
Review in Cancers, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- A study on the mechanism of action of B7H4 in HER2-positive gastric cancer and its sensitivity to trastuzumab therapy.Translational cancer research · 2026Article
- B7-H4-targeted radiotheranostics enable precise imaging and potent therapy across solid tumor models.Science advances · 2026Article
- NOS2 and COX2 impact the spatial landscape of CD8Redox biology · 2026Review
- The B7 family subgroup reflects tumor cell heterogeneity and patient post-operative prognosis in gallbladder cancer.Biology direct · 2026Article
- TIME for Endometrial Cancer: Advancements and Challenges in Therapeutic Targets for the Endometrial Cancer Tumor Immune Microenvironment.Cancer immunology research · 2025Review
- Immune checkpoint biology in hepatocellular carcinoma (Review).Oncology letters · 2025Review
- Unlocking new frontiers: novel immune targets for next-generation cancer immunotherapy.Korean journal of clinical oncology · 2025Review
- B7 Homolog 4 (B7-H4)-Directed Agents in Oncology Clinical Trials: A Review.Journal of immunotherapy and precision oncology · 2025Review
- Review
- Bispecific antibodies in the treatment of epithelial ovarian, endometrial, and cervical cancer: an overview of current applications, challenges, and emerging opportunities.Exploration of targeted anti-tumor therapy · 2025Review
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Abstract
Anti-cancer immunotherapies entirely changed the therapeutic approach to oncological patients. However, despite the undeniable success of anti-PD-1, PD-L1, and CTLA-4 antibody treatments, their effectiveness is limited either by certain types of malignancies or by the arising problem of cancer resistance. B7H4 (aliases B7x, B7H4, B7S1, VTCN1) is a member of a B7 immune checkpoint family with a distinct expression pattern from classical immune checkpoint pathways. The growing amount of research results seem to support the thesis that B7H4 might be a very potent therapeutic target. B7H4 was demonstrated to promote tumour progression in immune "cold" tumours by promoting migration, proliferation of tumour cells, and cancer stem cell persistence. B7H4 suppresses T cell effector functions, including inflammatory cytokine production, cytolytic activity, proliferation of T cells, and promoting the polarisation of naïve CD4 T cells into induced Tregs. This review aimed to summarise the available information about B7H4, focusing in particular on clinical implications, immunological mechanisms, potential strategies for malignancy treatment, and ongoing clinical trials.
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