Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Preferential inhibition of adaptive immune system dynamics by glucocorticoids in patients after acute surgical trauma

  • Edward A. Ganio,
  • Natalie Stanley,
  • Viktoria Lindberg-Larsen,
  • Jakob Einhaus,
  • Amy S. Tsai,
  • Franck Verdonk,
  • Anthony Culos,
  • Sajjad Ghaemi,
  • Kristen K. Rumer,
  • Ina A. Stelzer,
  • Dyani Gaudilliere,
  • Eileen Tsai,
  • Ramin Fallahzadeh,
  • Benjamin Choisy,
  • Henrik Kehlet,
  • Nima Aghaeepour,
  • Martin S. Angst,
  • Brice Gaudilliere

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17565-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Glucocorticoids (GC) are commonly used to suppress undesirable inflammatory responses. Here the authors show, using hi-dimensional flow cytometry data, that GC treatment following major surgeries alters adaptive immunity without significant modulation of innate immune responses or pain/functional impairment.