The Function and Regulation of T Cell Subsets in Inflammatory Disease

T cell populations including CD4+ helper T cells, CD8+ cytotoxic T cells and Foxp3+ regulatory T cells play a critical role in controlling or promoting inflammatory disease’s progression. In recent years, therapeutic regimens targeting specific T cell populations have exhibited potential value in treating a series of diseases. In the specific context of inflammatory diseases, cytokines, co-stimulatory molecules and metabolic products have an intensive impact on tissue-infiltrated T cell populations, which are prone to differentiate into multiple T cell subsets with distinct characteristics and functions, leading to disease’s control or progression. Thereby, to explore the factors and signal mechanisms that influence the function and regulation of T cell subsets in the circumstances of inflammatory diseases is of great significance for guiding immunotherapy through manipulating specific T cell subsets.

The goal of this Research Topic is to provide a forum to advance research on uncovering the factors and signal pathways that modulate T cell differentiation, proliferation, migration, metabolism and exhaustion in various disease settings. In addition, the special section also welcomes the submission that discover new strategies targeting specific T cell subsets, and the translation in clinic.

We warmly welcome the submissions of Original Research and Review on the sub-topics below:

• Novel T cell subsets in the context of inflammatory diseases

• Factors and signal mechanisms that mediate differentiation of T cell subsets in the context of inflammatory diseases

• T cell exhaustion and migration in the tissue microenvironment of inflammatorydiseases

• Tissue-specific Treg cells in inflammatory diseases

• Mechanism of Treg differentiation and expansion in inflammatory diseases

• The metabolism of T cells in the tissue microenvironment of inflammatory diseases

• The function of T cell subsets in response to cytokines and costimulatory molecules

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