Regulation of Inflammation; Its Resolution and Therapeutic Targeting

• Main Author: Massimo Locati (auth)
• Other Authors: Alberto Mantovani (auth), Mariagrazia Uguccioni (auth), Mauro Martins Teixeira (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; Regulation of inflammation; Therapeutic targeting; Inflammation; TLR; Cell migration
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Inflammation is a fundamental protective mechanism and at the same time the driving force of a variety of major diseases in humans. Indeed, acute self-resolving inflammation usually plays a positive role for the host, as exemplified by infectious diseases where its positive role is well established...