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OMRF receives $2.1 million to study immune system

January 19, 2023

Scientist hopes to better understand T cells

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Judith James, Maximizing Investigators' Research Award, Meng, metabolism, mitochondria, NIH grant, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, scientist-news, T cell, t-cells, Zhao

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.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Alberola-Ila, asthma, biomedical, chronic inflammatory bowel disease, discovery, function, funding, grant, immune, immunity, Jonathan, José, newsok, NIAID, NIH, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, organ, Presbyterian Health Foundation, psoriasis, research, role, science, scientist-news, Sun, t-cells, thymus, Wren, Xiao-Hong, xiao-hong sun

OMRF discovery could lead to new therapies for MS

March 19, 2018

OMRF researchers found that, in laboratory mice, a particular white blood cell seems to play a key role in MS.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, autoimmune, Axtell, B cell, blood, Bob Axtell, discovery, disease, health, james quinn, lab, laboratory, MS, multipl sclerosis, multiple sclerosis society, national eye institute, newsok, NIH, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, paralysis, research, robert, Robert Axtell, scientist-news, scientists, spasms, t-cells, tfh cells, therapies, treatment, tremors, vision loss

OMRF scientist receives National MS Society grant

August 11, 2016

The grant is to study the interplay between two specific cell types that drive MS.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: activity, autoimmune, Axtell, b cells. communicate, bob, cell types, disease, grant, Kincade, MS, MS Society, multiple sclerosis, news, newsok, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, Paul, robert, scientist-news, society, t-cells

New OMRF grant will study immune cell linked to asthma

August 4, 2016

The role of the new cell is to protect the body from parasitic infection.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: asthma, bone marrow, CDC, discovery, funding, grant, immune cell, infection, innate lymphoid cell, National Institutes of Health, newsok, NIAID, NIH, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, r01, research, science, scientist-news, Sun, t-cells, thymus, Xiao-Hong, xiao-hong sun

Scientists discover clues about cause of dryness in Sjögren’s syndrome

June 29, 2016

Findings may point researchers to the origins of this autoimmune disease

Filed Under: Diseases, News Tagged With: A., autoimmune disease, christopher, Courtney, darise farris, dry mouth, dryness, Farris, immune cells, Kathy, Lessard, Linda, Linda Thompson, Montgomery, Oklahoma Sjögren's Syndrome Center of Research Translation, osscort, robert, saliva production, salivary gland, salivary gland biopsy, scientist-news, Scofield, sivils, Sjogren's, Sjogren's syndrome, t-cells, Thompson, white blood cells, womens disease

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