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32 Citations
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Inflammasomes as Targets for Adjuvants

  • Konstantin Ivanov,
  • Ekaterina Garanina,
  • Albert Rizvanov and
  • Svetlana Khaiboullina

Inflammasomes are an essential part of the innate immune system. They are necessary for the development of a healthy immune response against infectious diseases. Inflammasome activation leads to the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines such as IL-...

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72 Citations
8,088 Views
28 Pages

Transcriptional Regulation of Inflammasomes

  • Maxence Cornut,
  • Emilie Bourdonnay and
  • Thomas Henry

29 October 2020

Inflammasomes are multimolecular complexes with potent inflammatory activity. As such, their activity is tightly regulated at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. In this review, we present the transcriptional regulation of inflammaso...

  • Review
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31 Citations
4,668 Views
22 Pages

Inflammasomes and Colorectal Cancer

  • Sanaz Keshavarz Shahbaz,
  • Khadijeh Koushki,
  • Seyed Hassan Ayati,
  • Abigail R. Bland,
  • Evgeny E. Bezsonov and
  • Amirhossein Sahebkar

24 August 2021

Inflammasomes are important intracellular multiprotein signaling complexes that modulate the activation of caspase-1 and induce levels of the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin-1β (IL-1β) and IL-18 in response to pathogenic microorganisms and mole...

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514 Views
22 Pages

Antiviral Inflammasomes and How to Find Them

  • Jennifer Deborah Wuerth and
  • Florian Ingo Schmidt

28 January 2026

Inflammasomes are signaling complexes of the innate immune system that are assembled in distinct sentinel cell types to coordinate inflammation. As demonstrated by the emergence of viral antagonists and evasion mechanisms, inflammasomes are critical...

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38 Citations
5,605 Views
11 Pages

NLPR3 Inflammasomes and Their Significance for Atherosclerosis

  • Anastasia V. Poznyak,
  • Alexandra A. Melnichenko,
  • Reinhard Wetzker,
  • Elena V. Gerasimova and
  • Alexander N. Orekhov

Atherosclerosis is a serious disorder, with numerous potential complications such as cardiovascular disease, ischemic stroke, and myocardial infarction. The origin of atherosclerosis is related to chronic inflammation, lipid metabolism alterations, a...

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24 Citations
5,542 Views
18 Pages

The Role of Inflammasomes in Glomerulonephritis

  • Paula Anton-Pampols,
  • Clara Diaz-Requena,
  • Laura Martinez-Valenzuela,
  • Francisco Gomez-Preciado,
  • Xavier Fulladosa,
  • Anna Vidal-Alabro,
  • Joan Torras,
  • Núria Lloberas and
  • Juliana Draibe

The inflammasome is an immune multiprotein complex that activates pro-caspase 1 in response to inflammation-inducing stimuli and it leads to IL-1β and IL-18 proinflammatory cytokine production. NLRP1 and NLRP3 inflammasomes are the best characte...

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215 Citations
13,111 Views
19 Pages

The Crosstalk between Nrf2 and Inflammasomes

  • Paulina Hennig,
  • Martha Garstkiewicz,
  • Serena Grossi,
  • Michela Di Filippo,
  • Lars E. French and
  • Hans-Dietmar Beer

13 February 2018

The Nrf2 (nuclear factor E2-related factor or nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2) transcription factor is a key player in cytoprotection and activated in stress conditions caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS) or electrophiles. Inflammasom...

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7 Citations
3,571 Views
14 Pages

Potential Role of Inflammasomes in Aging

  • Gilyoung Lee and
  • Geun-Shik Lee

The aging process is associated with the emergence of low-grade, sterile inflammation, called inflammaging, which can accelerate aging-related diseases, such as neurodegenerative, cardiovascular, and musculoskeletal diseases. Recent studies have focu...

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17 Citations
5,236 Views
14 Pages

Inflammasomes in Atherosclerosis—From Pathophysiology to Treatment

  • Panagiotis Theofilis,
  • Evangelos Oikonomou,
  • Christos Chasikidis,
  • Konstantinos Tsioufis and
  • Dimitris Tousoulis

28 August 2023

Atherosclerosis, a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by arterial plaque accumulation, remains a significant global health challenge. In recent years, inflammasomes, the intracellular multiprotein complexes crucial for initiating innate immun...

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50 Citations
8,357 Views
25 Pages

20 July 2022

Inflammasomes are intracellular signaling complexes of the innate immune system, which is part of the response to exogenous pathogens or physiological aberration. The multiprotein complexes mainly consist of sensor proteins, adaptors, and pro-caspase...

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15 Citations
3,864 Views
14 Pages

The Role of Inflammasomes in Heart Failure

  • Panayotis K. Vlachakis,
  • Panagiotis Theofilis,
  • Ioannis Kachrimanidis,
  • Konstantinos Giannakopoulos,
  • Maria Drakopoulou,
  • Anastasios Apostolos,
  • Athanasios Kordalis,
  • Ioannis Leontsinis,
  • Konstantinos Tsioufis and
  • Dimitris Tousoulis

Heart failure (HF) poses a significant world health challenge due to the increase in the aging population and advancements in cardiac care. In the pathophysiology of HF, the inflammasome has been correlated with the development, progression, and comp...

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1,814 Views
12 Pages

Characterization of Inflammasomes and Their Regulation in the Red Fox

  • Huijeong Ahn,
  • Dong-Hyuk Jeong,
  • Gilyoung Lee,
  • Suk-Jin Lee,
  • Jeong-Jin Yang,
  • Yo-Han Kim,
  • Tae-Wook Hahn,
  • Sooyoung Choi and
  • Geun-Shik Lee

13 December 2023

Background: Inflammasomes recognize endogenous and exogenous danger signals, and subsequently induce the secretion of IL-1β. Studying inflammasomes in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is crucial for wildlife veterinary medicine, as it can help contro...

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24 Citations
5,300 Views
18 Pages

Inflammasomes—New Contributors to Blood Diseases

  • Jaromir Tomasik and
  • Grzegorz Władysław Basak

Inflammasomes are intracellular multimeric complexes that cleave the precursors of the IL-1 family of cytokines and various proteins, found predominantly in cells of hematopoietic origin. They consist of pattern-recognition receptors, adaptor domains...

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11 Citations
5,193 Views
22 Pages

23 September 2022

It is well-known that viruses activate various inflammasomes, which can initiate the programmed cell death pathway known as pyroptosis, subsequently leading to cell lysis and release of inflammatory cytokines IL-1β and IL-18. This pathway can be...

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52 Citations
8,471 Views
31 Pages

Inflammasomes: Mechanisms of Action and Involvement in Human Diseases

  • Dimitri Bulté,
  • Chiara Rigamonti,
  • Alessandro Romano and
  • Alessandra Mortellaro

3 July 2023

Inflammasome complexes and their integral receptor proteins have essential roles in regulating the innate immune response and inflammation at the post-translational level. Yet despite their protective role, aberrant activation of inflammasome protein...

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54 Citations
6,017 Views
13 Pages

Heat Shock Proteins and Inflammasomes

  • Pierre Martine and
  • Cédric Rébé

12 September 2019

Heat shock proteins (HSP) regulate inflammation in many physiological contexts. However, inflammation is a broad process, involving numerous cytokines produced by different molecular pathways with multiple functions. In this review, we focused on the...

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1 Citations
1,928 Views
14 Pages

Cardio-Rheumatic Diseases: Inflammasomes Behaving Badly

  • Farah Issa,
  • Marah Abdulla,
  • Faizah D. Retnowati,
  • Huda Al-Khawaga,
  • Hanin Alhiraky,
  • Khalid M. Al-Harbi,
  • Amal Al-Haidose,
  • Zaid H. Maayah and
  • Atiyeh M. Abdallah

Cardio-rheumatology is an evolving and interdisciplinary field lying at the intersection of rheumatology and cardiovascular medicine that recognizes that individuals with autoimmune and inflammatory rheumatic complications have a much higher likeliho...

  • Article
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15 Citations
2,938 Views
17 Pages

Correlation between Inflammasomes and Microbiota in Peri-Implantitis

  • Miguel Padial-Molina,
  • Saray Montalvo-Acosta,
  • Natividad Martín-Morales,
  • Virginia Pérez-Carrasco,
  • Antonio Magan-Fernandez,
  • Francisco Mesa,
  • Francisco O’Valle,
  • Jose Antonio Garcia-Salcedo and
  • Pablo Galindo-Moreno

The activation of inflammasomes is thought to induce the inflammatory process around dental implants. No information is available on the correlation between microbiota and inflammasomes in clinical samples from patients suffering peri-implantitis. Fo...

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23 Citations
6,027 Views
15 Pages

The Roles of Inflammasomes in Host Defense against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

  • Jialu Ma,
  • Shasha Zhao,
  • Xiao Gao,
  • Rui Wang,
  • Juan Liu,
  • Xiangmei Zhou and
  • Yang Zhou

25 January 2021

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection is characterized by granulomatous lung lesions and systemic inflammatory responses during active disease. Inflammasome activation is involved in regulation of inflammation. Inflammasomes are multiprotein com...

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31 Citations
6,574 Views
19 Pages

9 November 2017

Pattern recognition receptors such as nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD)-containing protein receptors (NLRs) and the pyrin and hematopoitic interferon-inducible nuclear protein (HIN) domain (PYHIN) receptors initiate the inflammatory res...

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30 Citations
6,948 Views
11 Pages

Inflammasomes and SARS-CoV-2 Infection

  • Juha Kaivola,
  • Tuula Anneli Nyman and
  • Sampsa Matikainen

14 December 2021

SARS-CoV-2 is a new type of coronavirus that has caused worldwide pandemic. The disease induced by SARS-CoV-2 is called COVID-19. A majority of people with COVID-19 have relatively mild respiratory symptoms. However, a small percentage of COVID-19 pa...

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1 Citations
2,204 Views
3 Pages

Inflammation is an innate immunity protecting the body from pathogens and cellular damages and comprises two steps; 1) priming (preparatory step) and triggering (activation step). The key feature of the triggering step is the activation of inflammaso...

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3 Citations
4,638 Views
33 Pages

Inflammasomes in Intestinal Disease: Mechanisms of Activation and Therapeutic Strategies

  • Viviana Scalavino,
  • Emanuele Piccinno,
  • Gianluigi Giannelli and
  • Grazia Serino

4 December 2024

NOD-like receptors (NLRs) are a family of cytosolic pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) implicated in the innate immune sensing of pathogens and damage signals. NLRs act as sensors in multi-protein complexes called inflammasomes. Inflammasome activi...

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3 Citations
1,844 Views
17 Pages

The inflammatory response consists of two stages: priming and triggering. The triggering stage is marked by the activation of inflammasomes, which are cytosolic protein complexes acting as platforms for inflammation. Inflammasomes are divided into ca...

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75 Citations
8,126 Views
11 Pages

The Role of NLRP1, NLRP3, and AIM2 Inflammasomes in Psoriasis: Review

  • Magdalena Ciążyńska,
  • Irmina Olejniczak-Staruch,
  • Dorota Sobolewska-Sztychny,
  • Joanna Narbutt,
  • Małgorzata Skibińska and
  • Aleksandra Lesiak

Inflammasomes are high-molecular-weight protein complexes that may cleave the two main proinflammatory cytokines, pro-interleukin-1β and pro-interleukin-18, into active forms, and contribute to psoriasis. Despite recent advances made in the pathogene...

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5 Citations
3,395 Views
27 Pages

Inflammasomes in Alzheimer’s Progression: Nrf2 as a Preventive Target

  • Rubén López-Hernández,
  • María Magdalena de la Torre-Álamo,
  • Belén García-Bueno,
  • Alberto Baroja-Mazo,
  • Francisco Jose Fenoy and
  • Santiago Cuevas

21 January 2025

Current knowledge about Alzheimer’s disease highlights the accumulation of β-amyloid plaques (Aβ1–42) and neurofibrillary tangles composed of hyperphosphorylated Tau, which lead to the loss of neuronal connections. Microglial ac...

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37 Citations
5,184 Views
17 Pages

13 May 2022

Osteoarthritis is age-related and the most common form of arthritis. The main characteristics of the disease are progressive loss of cartilage and secondary synovial inflammation, which finally result in pain, joint stiffness, and functional disabili...

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17 Citations
4,705 Views
20 Pages

9 January 2021

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) regularly produce various blood cells throughout life via their self-renewal, proliferation, and differentiation abilities. Most HSCs remain quiescent in the bone marrow (BM) and respond in a timely manner to either ph...

  • Review
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19 Citations
6,545 Views
34 Pages

Nutraceutical Compounds Targeting Inflammasomes in Human Diseases

  • Beatriz Castejón-Vega,
  • Francesca Giampieri and
  • José M. Alvarez-Suarez

The macromolecular complex known as “inflammasome” is defined as an intracellular multi-protein complex composed of a sensor receptor (PRR), an adaptor protein and an effector enzyme (caspase-1), which oligomerize when they sense danger,...

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46 Citations
10,815 Views
21 Pages

Inflammasomes in the Pathophysiology of Aortic Disease

  • Markus Wortmann,
  • Andreas S. Peters,
  • Philipp Erhart,
  • Daniel Körfer,
  • Dittmar Böckler and
  • Susanne Dihlmann

15 September 2021

Aortic diseases comprise aneurysms, dissections, and several other pathologies. In general, aging is associated with a slow but progressive dilation of the aorta, along with increased stiffness and pulse pressure. The progression of aortic disease is...

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22 Citations
6,047 Views
28 Pages

Roles of Inflammasomes in Epstein–Barr Virus-Associated Nasopharyngeal Cancer

  • Chin King Looi,
  • Ling-Wei Hii,
  • Felicia Fei-Lei Chung,
  • Chun-Wai Mai,
  • Wei-Meng Lim and
  • Chee-Onn Leong

8 April 2021

Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) infection is recognised as one of the causative agents in most nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) cases. Expression of EBV viral antigens can induce host’s antiviral immune response by activating the inflammasomes to produce pro-...

  • Review
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9 Citations
5,623 Views
25 Pages

Inflammasomes and Signaling Pathways: Key Mechanisms in the Pathophysiology of Sepsis

  • Jhan S. Saavedra-Torres,
  • María Virginia Pinzón-Fernández,
  • Martin Ocampo-Posada,
  • H. A. Nati-Castillo,
  • Laura Alejandra Jiménez Hincapie,
  • Eder J. Cadrazo-Gil,
  • Marlon Arias-Intriago,
  • Marlon Rojas-Cadena,
  • Andrea Tello-De-la-Torre and
  • Juan S. Izquierdo-Condoy
  • + 1 author

19 June 2025

Sepsis is a life-threatening syndrome characterized by a dysregulated immune response to infection, frequently leading to multiorgan failure and high mortality. Inflammasomes—cytosolic multiprotein complexes of the innate immune system—se...

  • Review
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9 Citations
3,084 Views
21 Pages

Inflammasomes in Cardiovascular Diseases: Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives

  • Mario Caldarelli,
  • Laura Franza,
  • Sebastiano Cutrupi,
  • Martina Menegolo,
  • Francesco Franceschi,
  • Antonio Gasbarrini,
  • Giovanni Gambassi and
  • Rossella Cianci

Chronic inflammation is an important contributor to the development of cardiovascular disorders, and inflammasomes, especially the NOD-like receptor protein 3 (NLRP3), are emerging as crucial mediators in this context. Inflammasomes are activated thr...

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4 Citations
2,327 Views
22 Pages

Inflammasomes contribute to colorectal cancer signaling by primarily inducing inflammation in the surrounding tumor microenvironment. Its role in inflammation is receiving increasing attention, as inflammation has a protumor effect in addition to ind...

  • Review
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17 Citations
5,293 Views
16 Pages

Inflammatory diseases are a global health problem affecting millions of people with a wide range of conditions. These diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), osteoarthritis (OA), gout, and diabetes, impose a s...

  • Article
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28 Citations
2,965 Views
20 Pages

Comparison of Pollutant Effects on Cutaneous Inflammasomes Activation

  • John Ivarsson,
  • Francesca Ferrara,
  • Andrea Vallese,
  • Anna Guiotto,
  • Sante Colella,
  • Alessandra Pecorelli and
  • Giuseppe Valacchi

23 November 2023

The skin is the outermost layer of the body and, therefore, is exposed to a variety of stressors, such as environmental pollutants, known to cause oxinflammatory reactions involved in the exacerbation of several skin conditions. Today, inflammasomes...

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48 Citations
5,196 Views
16 Pages

Pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) play a crucial role in inducing inflammatory responses; they recognize pathogen-associated molecular patterns, damage-associated molecular patterns, and environmental factors. Nucleotide-binding oligomerization do...

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2 Citations
1,870 Views
12 Pages

The Role of Inflammasomes in LPS and Gram-Negative Bacterial Sepsis

  • Eduardo Hernández-Cuellar,
  • Kohsuke Tsuchiya,
  • Oscar Medina-Contreras and
  • Ricardo Valle-Ríos

9 October 2025

Background/Objectives: Sepsis is a life-threatening condition characterized by an uncontrolled immune response due to systemic infections. It is responsible for millions of deaths worldwide. Although inflammasomes play an important role in host defen...

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1 Citations
2,406 Views
16 Pages

5 December 2024

Collagen export from the endoplasmic reticulum is required for normal tissue homeostasis, and yet, in fibrotic disorders, this process is significantly upregulated. In this review, we will focus on the signaling cascade from the inflammasome and how...

  • Review
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17 Citations
4,110 Views
22 Pages

An inflammasome is an intracellular protein complex that is activated in response to a pathogenic infection and cellular damage. It triggers inflammatory responses by promoting inflammatory cell death (called pyroptosis) and the secretion of pro-infl...

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6 Citations
3,400 Views
16 Pages

NLRP1 in Cutaneous SCCs: An Example of the Complex Roles of Inflammasomes in Cancer Development

  • Michela Di Filippo,
  • Paulina Hennig,
  • Tugay Karakaya,
  • Marta Slaufova and
  • Hans-Dietmar Beer

14 October 2022

Protein complexes termed inflammasomes ensure tissue protection from pathogenic and sterile stressors by induction of inflammation. This is mediated by different caspase-1-induced downstream pathways, including activation of the pro-inflammatory cyto...

  • Review
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836 Views
18 Pages

12 September 2025

Inflammation is an innate immune system protecting the body from infection and injury. This process proceeds through two distinct stages: a priming phase, characterized by transcriptional activation, and a triggering phase, in which inflammasomes, cy...

  • Review
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1,151 Views
23 Pages

Background/Objectives: This review article highlights the role of the nucleotide-binding domain, leucine-rich repeat, pyrin domain-containing 3 protein (NLRP3) inflammasomes in various gastrointestinal and hepatic disorders in the pediatric age group...

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4 Citations
4,368 Views
18 Pages

Detecting DNA: An Overview of DNA Recognition by Inflammasomes and Protection against Bacterial Respiratory Infections

  • Juselyn D. Tupik,
  • Justin W. Markov Madanick,
  • Hannah M. Ivester and
  • Irving C. Allen

19 May 2022

The innate immune system plays a key role in modulating host immune defense during bacterial disease. Upon sensing pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs), the multi-protein complex known as the inflammasome serves a protective role against ba...

  • Review
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27 Citations
5,103 Views
13 Pages

Microglia are the resident immune cells in the CNS, which survey the brain parenchyma for pathogens, initiate inflammatory responses, secrete inflammatory mediators, and phagocyte debris. Besides, they play a role in the regulation of brain ion homeo...

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42 Citations
14,815 Views
62 Pages

Increasingly prevalent acute and chronic human brain diseases are scourges for the elderly. Besides the lack of therapies, these ailments share a neuroinflammation that is triggered/sustained by different innate immunity-related protein oligomers cal...

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934 Views
26 Pages

18 December 2025

Background: Chronic inflammation is a hallmark of many oral and systemic diseases and has long been recognised as a risk factor for cancer development. Central to inflammatory responses are inflammasomes—multiprotein complexes that, upon activa...

  • Review
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22 Citations
6,359 Views
23 Pages

Role of Inflammasomes in HIV-1 and Drug Abuse Mediated Neuroinflammaging

  • Susmita Sil,
  • Fang Niu,
  • Ernest T. Chivero,
  • Seema Singh,
  • Palsamy Periyasamy and
  • Shilpa Buch

8 August 2020

Despite the effectiveness of combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) in suppressing virus replication, chronic inflammation remains one of the cardinal features intersecting HIV-1, cART, drug abuse, and likely contributes to the accelerated neurocogni...

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2 Citations
3,071 Views
12 Pages

Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), is a major global health issue, with around 10 million new cases annually. Advances in TB immunology have improved our understanding of host signaling pathways, leading to innovative th...

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48 Citations
6,418 Views
16 Pages

Keloids and hypertrophic scars are pathological cutaneous scars. They arise from excessive wound healing, which induces chronic dermal inflammation and results in overwhelming fibroblast production of extracellular matrix. Their etiology is unclear....

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