IFNG and autoimmune thyroid disease: Another interesting finding was the effect of DEX on multiple pathways involved in immune response (autoimmune thyroid disease, response to interferon-gamma, cellular response to interferon-gamma, regulation of expression of SLITs and ROBOs, immune response-activating cell surface receptor signaling pathway) and 2 pathways involved in the phagosome are downregulated as well (phagosome, ER-Phagosome pathway) (Table 3).