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Metabolic rewiring promotes anti-inflammatory effects of glucocorticoids (2024)


Glucocorticoids reprogram the mitochondrial metabolism of macrophages, resulting in increased and sustained production of the anti-inflammatory metabolite itaconate and, as a consequence, inhibition of the inflammatory response.

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