Neuroimmune Axis in Cancer and Inflammatory Diseases
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Oncology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2025 | Viewed by 1204
Special Issue Editor
Interests: tumor microenvironment; drug resistance; immunotherapy; cell engineering; gene therapy
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Dear Colleagues,
Effective cancer treatments remain an unmet clinical need worldwide. Cancer cells are genetically unstable and highly heterogeneous, characteristics that largely contribute to the development of drug resistance in cancer patients due to primary and secondary mechanisms at the molecular level.
Increasing evidence demonstrates the importance of the neuro-immune axis in the tumor microenvironment for regulating cancer progression and drug resistance. Compared with cancer cells, the tumor microenvironment is developed from non-cancer cells and has no genetic instability, thereby making its neuro-immune axis an ideal target for the development of cancer therapy. A better understanding of the dynamics and interactions of the neuro-immune axis in the tumor microenvironment at the molecular level may lead to the discovery of safe and effective clinical strategies for cancer.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect original research and review articles describing the following:
- Novel neuro-immune interactions in the tumor microenvironment;
- Molecular mechanisms of neuro-immune axis for regulating cancer progression and drug resistance;
- Therapeutic strategies to target the neuro-immune axis for cancer treatment.
Dr. Patrick Ming-Kuen Tang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- neuro-immune axis
- cancer progression
- drug resistance
- cancer therapy
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