Targeting vasoactive intestinal peptide-mediated signaling enhances response to immune checkpoint therapy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Poor antitumor response of pancreatic cancer to immunotherapies is a major barrier to effective disease management. Herein we show that pancreatic cancers overexpress vasoactive intestinal peptide, and pharmacological inhibition of its signaling significantly enhances responsiveness of pancreatic du...

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Main Authors: Sruthi Ravindranathan, Tenzin Passang, Jian-Ming Li, Shuhua Wang, Rohan Dhamsania, Michael Brandon Ware, Mohammad Y. Zaidi, Jingru Zhu, Maria Cardenas, Yuan Liu, Sanjeev Gumber, Brian Robinson, Anish Sen-Majumdar, Hanwen Zhang, Shanmuganathan Chandrakasan, Haydn Kissick, Alan B. Frey, Susan N. Thomas, Bassel F. El-Rayes, Gregory B. Lesinski, Edmund K. Waller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34242-4