Commentary Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/allergy.1.001
Targeting Caspase-4 and pyroptosis as a new therapeutic approach for asthma
Zbigniew Zasłona1,*, Luke A.J. O’Neill1
- 1School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Corresponding Author
Zbigniew Zaslona, zaslonaz@tcd.ie
Received Date: April 07, 2020
Accepted Date: April 18, 2020
Zaslona Z, O’Neill LAJ. Targeting Caspase-4 and pyroptosis as a new therapeutic approach for asthma. J Allergy Infect Dis 2020; 1(1):1-4.
Copyright: © 2020 Zaslona Z, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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