Immune System: Page 6

New method helps study how oral immune cells fight diseases
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Researchers have found a new, less invasive method to extract single, rare immune cells from the mouth to study how the mouth's natural defenses ward off infection and inflammation.
April 15, 2014
Researchers reverse bone loss in immune disorder
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Treating a rare, but life-threatening immune disorder required a group of researchers to abandon what they thought they knew about periodontitis. Now they've found a way to reverse bone loss for patients with leukocyte adhesion deficiency.
March 27, 2014
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'Homing beacon' immune cells may treat perio disease
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Periodontal disease could be effectively treated by beckoning the right kind of immune system cells to the inflamed tissues, according to a new animal study by U.S. and Brazilian researchers published October 28 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
October 31, 2013
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Perio disease bacterium facilitates rheumatoid arthritis
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
While researchers and clinicians have long known about an association between two prevalent chronic inflammatory diseases, periodontal disease and rheumatoid arthritis, the microbiological mechanisms remain unclear.
September 12, 2013
Immunity proteins linked to head/neck cancers
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
A group of proteins involved in immunity can also develop detrimental genetic mutations often found in cancers of the head and neck, bladder, cervix, breast, and lung, according to a new study in Nature Genetics.
July 16, 2013
Gingivitis bacteria manipulates immune system
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
A new study highlights the mechanism by which Porphyromonas gingivalis establishes a chronic infection in the form of periodontal disease and provides insight into how the disease develops.
January 6, 2013
Study yields strategy to prevent, halt perio disease
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated the ability to both prevent periodontitis from developing and halt the progression of the disease once it has developed, according to study in the Journal of Immunology.
December 6, 2012
Blocking enzyme reduces perio inflammation
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Researchers from the University of Louisville School of Dentistry have found a way to prevent inflammation and bone loss surrounding the teeth by blocking a natural signaling pathway of the enzyme GSK3b.
September 11, 2012
Biomimetic capsules may help treat perio disease
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
A potential new treatment for periodontal disease that involves controlled-release capsules is being unveiled this week at the American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition in Philadelphia.
August 19, 2012
Inflammation key to understanding periodontal disease
By Nancy A. Melville
In the quest to better understand the causes of periodontal disease, researchers are making big strides on two key fronts: understanding the nature of the bacteria that stimulate gingival inflammation, and the genetic and physiologic foundations that can determine the body's response to that stimulus.
February 14, 2012
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Researchers use NIH grant to study Sjögren's causes
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Researchers at the Georgia Health Sciences University are using a $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify what causes Sjögren's syndrome.
November 20, 2011
Tennis star diagnosed with Sjögren's syndrome
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Tennis star Venus Williams has withdrawn from this year's U.S. Open championship after being recently diagnosed with Sjögren's syndrome, according to a news story in the New York Times.
August 31, 2011
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