Male Hormones Regulate Stomach Inflammation in Mice

Glucocorticoids and androgens promote a healthy stomach pit by inhibiting inflammation, left, while their absence promotes inflammation and SPEM seen in a diseased pit, right. SPEM glands are also much larger than healthy stomach glands. (Photo courtesy of Jonathan Busada, Ph.D./NIEHS) Scientists at the National Institutes of Health determined t...
Source: NIEHS - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - News - Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research