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Home - OMRF News - Archives for immune

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New findings could help better understand autoimmune disease families

August 1, 2019

Autoimmune diseases are conditions in which the immune system becomes unbalanced and turns on the body instead of protecting it.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: autoimmune, conditions, disease, immune, James, Judith, kerr, lupus, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, oklahoman, OMRF, patients, prevention, ra, rheumatoid arthritis, science, scientist-news, scientists, smile, study, system, treat, treatment

Are we too clean for our own good?

June 25, 2019

Mounting research suggests our quest to be clean might make children sicker, not healthier.

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Don’t skimp on the sunshine vitamin

June 4, 2019

Sunshine and the vitamin D it delivers play a key role in your health.

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Discovery casts light on workings of the immune system

May 23, 2019

The discovery could lead to new therapeutic approaches to a wide range of illnesses, including asthma, inflammatory bowel disease and psoriasis.

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OMRF receives $3.2 million grant to study rare immune disease

March 19, 2019

A four-year grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute will help OMRF researcher Courtney Montgomery and her team determine the roles of specific immune cells associated with sarcoidosis.

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New OMRF grant will focus on autoimmune condition

October 24, 2018

The project will focus on comparing certain immune cells in patients with Sjögren’s to those of healthy controls.

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