Table 2.

Stimulatory immune checkpoint-like effects of VISTA

Cancer type	Research object	VISTA expression	Reference
Ovarian cancer	Samples from patients with stage I–IV ovarian cancer	Tumor cells, immune cells, endothelial cells	Zong et al. [41]
Esophageal adenocarcinoma	Patient samples	Tumor cells; CD68+ TILs, CD4+ TILs	Loeser et al. [46]
Gastric cancer	Samples from patients with gastric cancer and corresponding liver metastases	Tumor cells, immune cells, endothelial cells	Boger et al. [45]
Hepatocellular carcinoma	Patient samples	Tumor cells, immune cells	Zhang et al. [47]

TIL tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte