This work was supported by grants from the Military Twelfth Five-Year Plan and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30873077, No. 30971083) The authors declared no conflicts of interests.
Background The immunomodulatory effects of glucocorticoids (GCs) have been described as bimodal. High concentration of GCs exerts immunosuppressive effects and low levels of GCs are immunopermissive. While the immun...