Recent Research in Drugs for Treating Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 April 2022) | Viewed by 4069
Special Issue Editors
Interests: molecular and cellular innate immunity; iPS cell differentiation to neutrophils; Neutrophils Extracellular Traps (NETs); kinase mediated cell signaling; large scale transcriptomics; respiratory infection; chronic lung infection and inflammation; COPD; asthma; Cystic Fibrosis; in vivo lung infection and inflammation model; lung transplant, post lung transplant diseases; NETs-mediated metastasis; long chain fatty acid (furanoic acid) role in innate immunity; wound healing; chemotherapy drug screening and validation; endometriosis; reproductive biology
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2. Nano Drug Delivery®, Raleigh-Durham, Durham, NC 27705, USA
Interests: pharmaceutical nanotechnology; respiratory nanomedicine; drug delivery therapeutics; pharmaceutical artificial intelligence; pharmaceutical analysis; in vivo drug estimation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A healthy immune system defends the body against disease and other conditions. However, if the immune system malfunctions, it can attack healthy cells, tissues, and organs. Inflammatory and autoimmune-related pathogenesis impacts different parts of the body, weakening functionality.
This includes a wide spectrum of immune cells and their functional mechanism to operate the physiology. Any disruption or dysregulation leads to consequences of informallation or autoimmune disease. More specifically, the formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) os helpful in combating the infection and inflammation, but dysregulation may lead to many inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, including lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer metastasis, COPD, cystic fibrosis, and diverse pathological conditions. Drug screening and discovery are an unmet need to clinically manage pathological situations along with understanding the role of immune cells, their cross talk, and relevant mechanism causing inflammatory and autoimmune disease.
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a comprehensive overview of the impact of recent research leading to the discovery of novel drugs and development, further extending and accepting the ideas and implications of large data analytics, and artificial intelligence to screen big drug libraries for repurposing and innovating new drug treatment options.
Dr. Meraj Alam Khan
Dr. Md. Faiyazuddin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drug screening
- drug development
- autoimmune disease
- inflammatory diseases
- immune cells
- macrophage
- neutrophils
- neutrophil extracellular traps
- nanoparticles
- artificial intelligence
- metadata analysis
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