“…Since the discovery and naming of necroptosis in 2005, it has been demonstrated that necroptosis may participate in the pathology of a number of inflammation diseases, such as acute pancreatitis (Wang, Qu, Li, Lv, & Sun, ), ischemia–reperfusion injury (Zhang et al., ), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) (Dagenais, Douglas, & Saleh, ), and skin diseases (Panayotova‐Dimitrova et al., ). In addition, human cytomegalovirus (Omoto et al., ), as well as herpes simplex virus I and II (Guo et al., ), inhibited necroptosis to facilitate the intracellular proliferation and growth, whereas interaction of HSV‐1 protein ICP6 with RIPK1 and RIPK3 triggers necroptosis, thus limiting viral propagation in experimental animals (Huang et al., ), which demonstrated a different role of necroptosis in virus infection‐related diseases.…”