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. 1992;1(2):101–106. doi: 10.1155/S0962935192000176

Role of glucocorticoids in neutrophil and endothelial adhesion molecule expression and function

Kevin D Forsyth 1,✉, Vivienne Talbot 1
PMCID: PMC2365327  PMID: 18475448

Abstract

Glucocorticoids are very effective inhibitors of both the acute and chronic inflammatory response. In this study the hypothesis that glucocorticoids inhibit an early component of the inflammatory response, neutrophil adhesion to endothelium, by down-regulation of adhesion molecules on neutrophils or endothelium was examined. No effect of dexamethasone on neutrophil adhesion to endothelium or of antigen expression by neutrophils or endothelium was found. The mechanism of action of glucocorticoids in the inflammatory response is probably not mediated by alterations in adhesion molecules.

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