Extracellular Vesicles in Inflammation and Inflammatory Diseases
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 4544
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cellular and molecular mechanisms of extracellular vesicles (EVs) biogenesis; HIV-associated alcoholic liver disease and neuropathogenesis; EVs as biomarkers and therapeutics; HIV and immunogenicity; HIV-1, HBV and HCV mono- and coinfections; humanized mouse models; alcoholic and non-alcoholic liver diseases
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Interests: hepatitis C, B, HIV, and other viral hepatitis; alcohol-associated liver disease; innate immunity; antigen presentation; proteasome; protein posttranslational modifications; animal models for a hepatitis study; long-acting drugs
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Interests: HIV and drug abuse synergy; exosomes; noncoding RNAs
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have a pivotal role in inflammation, and EVs including exosomes, apoptotic bodies, and microvesicles show significant alteration in people who are on drugs of abuse (e.g., cocaine, alcohol, opioids) and in those with inflammatory diseases (e.g., gastrointestinal inflammation, liver diseases, autoimmune, neuroinflammation). EVs are released by all cell types and have a prominent role in the maintenance of cell-homeostasis and intercellular communication. EVs regulate cell-intrinsic functions and cell–cell communication by removing or transferring their cargo of miRNAs, RNAs, lncRNAs, circRNA, cytokines, proteins, and lipids to extracellular milieus or in recipient cells. As alteration in the number of EVs and cargo is disease-specific, EVs have therapeutic potential and could be used as biomarkers for inflammation and other inflammatory diseases.
For this Special Issue, we encourage the submission of manuscripts on any aspect of extracellular vesicles including but not limited to the role of extracellular vesicles in disease pathogenesis; biogenesis; intercellular or interorgan communication; biomarkers and therapeutics; Proteomics, lipidomics and metabolomics of EVs; drugs of abuse; inflammatory diseases; etc. We accept reviews, conference proceedings, and short- and full-size research papers which cover the subjects as mentioned above.
Dr. Raghubendra S. Dagur
Prof. Dr. Natalia Osna
Dr. Guoku Hu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Extracellular vesicles
- Exosomes
- Apoptotic bodies
- Macrovesicles
- Exomere
- Ectosomes
- Inflammation
- Inflammatory diseases
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