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'Initially, the researchers considered the idea that glucocorticoids act directly on immune cells, which respond by releasing molecules that cause inflammation. “But it turns out that there is a sort of layer in between,” Thaiss says. Working in mice, they found that glucocorticoids act instead on neurons in the gut and on cells called glia that connect gut neurons to one another.'

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

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