Advances in Neuroinfections and Neuroimmunology
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409). This special issue belongs to the section "Cells of the Nervous System".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 10897
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany
Interests: neuroinflammation; neurodegeneration; bacterial meningitis; antimicrobial peptides; Alzheimer’s disease; multiple sclerosis; glia cells; pattern recognition receptors
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Dear Colleagues,
The central nervous system (CNS) is protected from the environment by the skull, the meninges, the blood–brain barrier, and the innate immune system. Pathogens have developed mechanisms to pass these barriers and enter the CNS while the human organism tries to prevent this. Once pathogens have entered the brain, they cause serious damage that often leads to death despite rapid antibiotic therapy. Despite much progress in recent decades in the prevention of infectious diseases with the help of vaccines and the development of effective antibiotic agents, neurological infections remain the main cause of permanent neurological damage worldwide. Recent studies show that the control of the inflammatory response plays an important role, and the prevention of an excessive inflammatory response seems to be an important approach in the treatment of such CNS infections. This Special Issue seeks reviews and original papers covering a wide range of hot topics related to new studies around neuroinfections and neuroimmunology, to understand the interactions between the invaders and the body’s defense mechanisms, the importance of the inflammatory response for the progression of diseases, and current developments of new forms of therapy for neuroimmunological diseases.
Dr. Lars Ove Brandenburg
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- central nervous system
- brain
- inflammation
- infection
- neuroimmunology
- neuroinflammation
- innate immunity
- specific immunity
- blood–brain barrier
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