113. Glucocorticoid-mediated recruitment of inflammatory myeloid cells correlates with colitis during exposure to chronic psychosocial stress

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic disorder with widespread ethiology; genetic predisposition, nutrition, and the immune state are factors influencing the outcome of the disease. Furthermore, chronic stress has negatively been linked to IBD. Chronic subordinate colony housing (CSC) has recently been established as a model to study the impact of stress on colonic inflammation. So far, this model correlates stressor exposure with...