MIF and inflammatory bowel disease: These findings explain how MIF plays an important role in the pathogenesis of several inflammatory disorders, such as sepsis (Pohl et al., 2017), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) (Nishihira and Mitsuyama, 2009), allergic (Xie et al., 2021) rheumatoid arthritis and lupus (Bilsborrow et al., 2019).