Natural Compounds in Immune-Inflammatory Regulation: Mechanisms and Therapeutics
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural compound; immune-inflammatory regulation
Interests: inflammation; oxidative stress; asthma; immune balance
Interests: new drugs from natural product; functional foods; analysis of natural sources; immuno-modulatory sources
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Dear Colleagues,
Inflammation is a biological protective reaction and is closely related to immune regulation. There are many mediators for immunity, and cytokine is a very important regulator for immune reactions. Currently, cytokine storms, under the severe situation of immune imbalance, can induce them to die. Cytokine storms can occur in the final stage of inflammation and is one of the symptoms during immunity regulation. Furthermore, it is very important to highlight the relation between inflammation and immune mediators. Although many researchers have mainly concentrated on the functional studies of natural products, almost all studies were concluded after acquiring biological effects. However, it is more important to identify and analyze functional compounds and to investigate the mechanism of therapeutic actions.
Through this Special Issue, the relation between inflammation and immune mediators will be illuminated and the bio-active compound analysis method for natural products will be established in order to control metabolic diseases through an in vitro system or/and in vivo.
Dr. Dae-Hun Park
Prof. Dr. Chun-Sik Bae
Prof. Dr. Seung-Sik Cho
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural compound
- immune-inflammatory regulation
- mechanism
- cytokine
- NF-κB/COX-2
- PGE2
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