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Tight junctions (TJs) seal the epithelial barrier and determine the paracellular transport. The properties of TJs depend especially on their claudin composition. Steroids are potent drugs used to treat a variety of airway diseases. Therefore, we addressed whether steroid hormones directly act on TJ properties in lung epithelia. Primary human tracheal epithelial cells and NCI-H441 cells, both cultivated under air\u2013liquid interface conditions, were used as epithelial cell models. Our results demonstrate that glucocorticoids, but not mineralocorticoids, decreased paracellular permeability and shifted the ion permselectivity of TJs toward Cl\u2212. Glucocorticoids up-regulated claudin 8 (cldn8) expression via glucocorticoid receptors. Silencing experiments revealed that cldn8 is necessary to recruit occludin at the TJs. Immunohistochemistry on human lung tissue showed that cldn8 is specifically expressed in resorptive epithelia of the conducting and respiratory airways but not in the alveolar epithelium. We conclude that glucocorticoids enhance lung epithelia barrier function and increase paracellular Cl\u2212 selectivity via modulation of cldn8-dependent recruitment of occludin at the TJs. 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