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ReviewCancer cell international2025

A new era in melanoma immunotherapy: focus on DCs metabolic reprogramming.

Mina Afrashteh Nour, Mansour Rajabivahid, Marjan Sadat Seyed Mehdi, Safa Tahmasebi, Sepideh Nasirzadeh Dashtgol, Mahmoud Dehghani-Ghorbi, Ahmad Ghorbani Vanan, Farid Ghorbaninezhad

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Review in Cancer cell international, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Mina Afrashteh Nour *Department of Biochemistry and Clinical Laboratories, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Mansour Rajabivahid *Department of Internal Medicine, Valiasr Hospital, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Marjan Sadat Seyed Mehdi *Student Research Committee, Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Safa TahmasebiStudent Research Committee, Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Sepideh Nasirzadeh DashtgolDepartment of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Paramedical Sciences, Tehran Medical Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Mahmoud Dehghani-GhorbiHematology-Oncology Department, Imam Hossein Educational Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. m.dehghanighorbi@sbmu.ac.ir.
Ahmad Ghorbani VananStudent Research Committee, Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. ghorbanivanan@sbmu.ac.ir.
Farid GhorbaninezhadStudent Research Committee, Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. ghorbaninezhadfarid@gmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Melanoma, being one of the most dangerous forms of skin cancer, is characterized by its aggressive and metastatic nature, with the potential to develop resistance to various treatments. This resistance makes the disease challenging to treat, emphasizing the need for new treatment strategies. Within the tumor microenvironment (TME), melanoma cells exploit metabolic shifts, particularly glycolysis, to create an immunosuppressive TME that prevents dendritic cells (DCs) from functioning properly. Essential metabolic alterations such as lactate and lipid accumulation, and lack of tryptophan disrupt DC maturation, antigen presentation, and T cell activation. In recent years, melanoma immunotherapy has increasingly focused on reprogramming the metabolism of DCs. This review paper aims to provide insights into the metabolic suppression of melanoma-associated DCs, allowing the design of therapeutic strategies based on metabolic interventions to promote or restore DC function. This contribution reviews the metabolic reprogramming of DCs as a new approach for melanoma immunotherapy.

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Dendritic cellImmunotherapyMelanomaMetabolic reprogrammingTumor microenvironment

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PMID40234886
PMCPMC12001691

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