The Role and Mechanisms of Natural Products in Inflammatory Responses and Inflammatory Diseases
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 July 2025 | Viewed by 1326
Special Issue Editor
Interests: inflammation; inflammatory/autoimmune diseases; noncanonical inflammasomes; macrophage; anti-inflammatory therapeutics; signaling transduction; immunology; molecular biology; biochemistry
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Dear Colleagues,
Inflammation is an innate immunity to protect the body from pathogens and cellular danger signals; however, repeated and prolonged inflammation, known as chronic inflammation, has been considered a critical risk factor for human diseases. Therefore, much effort has been made to understand the mechanisms of inflammatory responses and develop anti-inflammatory therapeutics. Many anti-inflammatory drugs have been developed, but the critical limitations of these drugs are considerable toxicity with limited efficacy. Natural products and their bioactive components have long been used to enhance human health and to alleviate a variety of pathogenic conditions, suggesting that natural products are safe and efficacious for numerous human diseases. However, the regulatory roles of natural products in inflammatory responses and diseases and the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown.
This Special Issue welcomes studies that explore, but are not limited to, the following areas: the regulatory roles of natural products and their bioactive components in inflammatory responses and diseases, identifying and validating novel targets regulating inflammatory responses, evaluating anti-inflammatory effects of natural products, and developing natural product-based anti-inflammatory therapeutics.
Dr. Young-Su Yi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural product
- bioactive component
- inflammation
- inflammatory disease
- anti-inflammatory
- mechanism
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