Tissue Engineering in Brain Injury Applications: From Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutics Opportunities
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Neurobiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 7013
Special Issue Editor
Interests: brain injury; tissue infections; inflammation; diabetes; microbiome; diagnostics; engineering; nanoparticles; drug development; drug delivery
Special Issue Information
Brain injury is one of the most pressing global health issues and prevalent causes of cerebrovascular and neurological disorders all over the world. In addition to the brain injury, patients become vulnerable to infections, develop poor neurological outcomes, and exhibit a higher rate of mortality and morbidity. It is well established that brain injury leads to impairments of the blood–brain barrier (BBB) integrity and function, contributing to the loss of neural tissue and affecting the response to neuroprotective drugs. Thus, stabilization/protection of the BBB after brain injury is a promising strategy to limit neuronal inflammation, secondary brain damage, and acute neurodegeneration.
This Special Issue will be an open-access forum to address these issues, in the form of original research articles and reviews about “Tissue Engineering in Brain Injury Applications: From Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutics Opportunities”. The Special Issue is aimed at researchers using a wide range of tissue infection models, which may include animal models, ex vivo tissues, and reconstructed or engineered tissues, using physical, biochemical, and immunological techniques to study host–pathogen interactions, the microbiome, the role of predisposing factors (e.g., diabetes), inflammation, new drugs, and infection management techniques and diagnostics. We hope to stimulate new collaborations, therapeutic avenues, and technologies to advance our field and to expand the range of treatments available to clinicians
Prof. Dr. Dinesh Kumar Srinivasan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Brain injury
- Tissue infections
- Inflammation
- Diabetes
- Microbiome
- Diagnostics
- Engineering
- Nanoparticles
- Drug development
- Drug delivery
