Latest Advances in Cytokine Storm
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: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 1787
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cytokine storm, also termed cytokine release syndrome, currently constitutes a highly actual and largely unsolved problem. The inflammatory cytokine response is essential for protective immunity, yet bacterial and viral pathogens often elicit an exaggerated inflammatory response harmful to the host that can cause multi-organ damage and lethality. The problem is compounded by the increasing incidence of multi-drug-resistant bacterial strains. Much has been published recently on cytokine storm within the context of the coronavirus pandemic, yet bacterial sepsis, severe wound infections, toxic shock, and chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy of cancer provide other prominent examples.
This Special Issue of IJMS invites contributions from all scientific areas that involve cytokine storm and will provide a forum for the exchange of new concepts and original results from in vitro to in vivo studies.
Prof. Dr. Raymond Kaempfer
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cytokine storm
- cytokine release syndrome
- inflammatory
- protective immunity
- multi-drug resistant bacterial strains
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