AIMES - Crossing Borders with Thomas Brunner
Webinar:
“Extra-adrenal glucocorticoid synthesis in the intestinal mucosa: implications for local immune homeostasis and cancer development”
Speaker:
Thomas Brunner
Biochemical Pharmacology, Dept. Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany
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Host: Onur Parlak
AIMES - Center for the Advancement of Integrated Medical and Engineering Sciences
www.aimes.se
Tid: Ti 2022-04-12 kl 15.00 - 16.00
Plats: Zoom (sign-up required)
We are happy to welcome Thomas Brunner to give a talk with the following abstract:
Glucocorticoids as medical drugs have an important application in the treatment of inflammatory diseases and cancer. Seventy years ago, glucocorticoids were, however, first discovered as endogenous stress hormones, primarily produced by the adrenal glands in response to emotional, physical and immunological stress. Recent years have led to the discovery and characterization of alternative sources of these immunoregulatory steroid hormones. Our group discovered for the first-time glucocorticoid synthesis in the intestinal mucosa in response to immunological stress. In this presentation I will discuss the transcriptional regulation of intestinal steroidogenesis, its implication in the regulation of inflammatory processes of the intestine, and how colorectal tumors have high-jacked glucocorticoid synthesis to evade destruction by the immune system.
Contact
Linda Thörn