ADAMTS13 is conventionally regarded as the protease whose severe deficiency causes thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). By cleaving shear-unfolded ultra-large and high-molecular-weight von Willebrand factor (VWF), ADAMTS13 limits a platelet- and …
Inflammasomes are multiprotein complexes that orchestrate immune responses to pathogenic and sterile insults by regulating the maturation of inflammatory cytokines and pyroptotic cell death. While inflammasome activation is well-characterized at the bi…
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) may remain regionally permeable and poorly reparative after the initiating insult has weakened. We propose that, in a biologically enriched subset of non-resolving ARDS, repeated entry of circulating apolipopr…
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a whole-joint disease involving cartilage, synovium, subchondral bone, and neurovascular structures. Synovitis, damage-associated molecular patterns, and interactions between macrophages and fibroblast-like synoviocytes have been…
Most patients with cancer are older adults living with several other chronic illnesses, and both the tumour and its commonest companions—cardiometabolic disease, type 2 diabetes and depression—are sustained by a shared, immunosuppressive inflammatory m…
Sepsis remains the leading cause of death in intensive care, yet decades of trials targeting individual inflammatory mediators have failed to reduce mortality. This failure may reflect a fundamental misunderstanding: sepsis may not be a disease of immu…
Lymphovascular invasion (LVI) describes intravasated tumor cells within intratumoral lymphatic or blood vessels. LVI is reported routinely on pathologic examination because it is prognostic for reduced disease-free and overall survival across many soli…
Adult human skin healing is predominantly characterized by fibrosis rather than true regeneration, despite the conserved regenerative principles observed in fetal wound healing, liver regeneration, and other biological systems. Historical and contempor…
Atopic dermatitis (AD) and allergic rhinitis (AR) commonly coexist in childhood and are associated with an important clinical burden. Their frequent coexistence and substantial mechanistic overlap suggest that pediatric AD–AR comorbidity may involve pa…
Rather than viewing classical neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and severe psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia (SCZ) as isolated diagnostic silos, modern biological psychiatry increasingly conceptualizes th…
