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Mouse Study Reveals Brown Fat’s Role in Stress-Induced Inflammation
Cell.Since stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline generally decrease inflammation, it has long puzzled researchers how stress can worsen health problems such as diabetes and autoimmune disease as well as depression and anxiety.“In the clinic, we have all seen super-stressful events that make inflammatory disease worse, and that never made sense to us,” said Dr. Andrew Wang, assistant professor of internal medicine and immunobiology, and corresponding author of the study.Cortisol and adrenaline, hormones released in the classic “flight or fight” stress response, suppress the immune system, not activate it.
