Cells - 8 News by Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg from Germany for the healthcare industry

Cells - 8 News by Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg from Germany for the healthcare industry

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Casting off: Leaving autoimmune disease behind thanks to an innovative treatment

Research team makes decisive breakthrough

24-Sep-2024 - Using the motto “Lichtet den Anker und segelt der Erkrankung davon!” (“Raise anchor and leave your illness behind”), the team at Department of Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology at the Deutsches Zentrum für Immuntherapy, Uniklinikum Erlangen, FAU has discovered an innovative treatment ...

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How a “date” between immune cells makes rheumatism disappear

Major success: New approach for treating autoimmune diseases

06-May-2024 - Dates don’t always work out the way you would like. This is the premise on which scientists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have developed a new approach towards treating autoimmune diseases. They brought two types of immune cells, B cells and T cells, together at one ...

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Revolutionary cell therapy: rebooting the immune system stops autoimmune diseases

Single infusion of CAR-T cells replaces immunosuppressive drugs

23-Feb-2024 - In March 2021, doctors at FAU treated a young woman with a severe autoimmune disease with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells for the first time in the world. Today, almost three years later, they have now been able to publish a pilot study in the New England Journal of Medicine and show that ...

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Immune cells strengthen bones

New molecular mechanism discovered in inflammatory bone loss

20-Feb-2024 - In osteoporosis, bone mass is lost and bones break more easily. The increased bone loss is either triggered by a hormonal imbalance or as the result of inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or chronic inflammatory bowel diseases. A team of researchers at Department of Medicine 3 – ...

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Pushing the reset button on autoimmune diease

"What is special about this is that a single infusion of CAR T cells brought down the inflammation and autoimmune response like a house of cards"

21-Sep-2022 - At Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), patients with severe forms of autoimmune diseases are being treated with cells from the body that have been genetically modified, which are known as CAR T cells. This study is the first of its kind in the world. Physicians were astounded ...

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Inflammation in fatty tissue: New approaches for treating obesity

A team of researchers have discovered a factor that may help trigger obesity

31-Mar-2022 - Researchers at the Institute of Microbiology – Clinical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen and Trinity College Dublin have discovered a factor that may be involved in triggering obesity. What causes obesity? The researchers investigated how immune cells work ...

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Riesling for the immune system?

How alcohol in moderation has a positive effect on impaired immune reactions

15-May-2020 - We all know that excessive consumption of alcohol is bad for our health. Moderate quantities of alcohol, however, can be beneficial to our health in some circumstances. In a paper published in Nature, a team of researchers from FAU shows that alcohol modifies the immune system in a very specific ...

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Cells that destroy the intestine

Medical researchers discover a type of cell which induces acute inflammatory episodes in bowel diseases

31-Jan-2019 - More than 4000,000 people in Germany are affected by the chronic inflammatory bowel diseases Morbus Crohn or ulcerative colitis. Patients often suffer from flare-ups, which damage intestinal tissue. Until now, little has been known about what actually causes flare-ups. Working together with ...

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