Advances in Anti-inflammatory Drug Development

Dear Colleagues,

Inflammation is a complex set of physiological and pathological processes that can arise in any tissue in response to infectious agents and sterile disease-relevant stimuli. An abundance of new evidence demonstrates that aberrant and chronic inflammation promotes the development of a variety of diseases such as COVID-19, metabolic disorder, cancer, neurodegeneration, cardiovascular disease, and inflammatory bowel disease. Increasing evidence shows that inflammation is an imperative therapeutic target in many diseases. However, most current therapies have unmet medical needs, and better therapeutics targeting specific signaling pathways in the inflammatory response are urgently needed. This Special Issue, “Advances in Anti-inflammatory Drug Development”, welcomes original research and review articles in the field, with a focus on, but not limited to, anti-inflammatory small molecules or macromolecules produced by plants, microorganisms, animals, or chemical synthesis. Studies on inflammatory responses with a molecular and mechanistic basis, pathologies as a result of aberrant inflammation, and any interesting inflammation-related studies are also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Kuo-Feng Hua
Guest Editor

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• inflammation
• inflammatory disease
• infectious disease
• anti-inflammatory drugs
• innate immunity
• cytokines
• inflammasomes
• sterile inflammation