Cellular and Molecular Regulation of Inflammatory Diseases
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Cell Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2022) | Viewed by 6669
Special Issue Editors
Interests: macrophages; inflammation; obesity; atherosclerosis; cancer
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There are too many pathogenic factors on the planet. Bacteria or viruses may induce acute cytokine storms, such as sepsis. Diabetes and obesity can develop over time if we eat incorrectly. Pollen may make our eyes itch and our nose run. Even chronic psychological stress may make cancer worse. All these stimuli will alert our defense system—the immune system in the first step. In particular, our immune system sometimes may mistakenly injure a part of our body and cause autoimmune disease. Cancer may grow silently when the immune system is out of control. At the cellular level, frontline cells (such as neutrophils, monocytes, or macrophages) are challenged to protect us and simultaneously release signals to other cells to maintain homeostasis. At the molecular level, extracellular signals are transduced intracellularly in these frontier cells or recruited cells and induce the alterations of genes and proteins. In this way, the immune system is regulated and responds to all disease malfunctions through horizontal and vertical interactions.
In this Special Issue, we encourage the submission of manuscripts on any aspect of the regulation of any inflammatory diseases at the cellular or molecular level. We accept reviews, conference proceedings, short and full-length research papers, technical advances, bioinformatics analyses, and studies that address the above topics.
Dr. Xianfeng Wang
Dr. Vidula Vachharajani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- inflammatory diseases
- acute infection
- chronic inflammation
- autoimmune
- cancer
- signal transduction
- bioinformatics
- cellular biology
- molecular biology
- disease modulation
