Endocrine Abstracts

The circadian clock is a key regulator of immune responses. Both circulating and resident immune cells possess intrinsic timers, which act to impart time-of-day variation in their function. It is now becoming evident that the circadian clock is also critically involved in regulating the function of endogenous anti-inflammatory glucocorticoid hormones. Consequently, we see variation in an animal’s inflammatory responses dependent on the time the stimulus was delivered. Thi...

One in five people in the UK is affected by lung disease, along with millions more worldwide. Glucocorticoids represent the most utilized anti-inflammatory therapy for the treatment of pulmonary inflammation, however a subset of patients exist which do not respond to therapeutically relevant doses.The non-ciliated bronchial epithelial (Clara) cells have been identified as key mediators of the pulmonary inflammatory response. The glucocorticoid receptor (...