{"id":2935,"date":"2008-04-03T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/4-7-08-grant-awarded-for-multiple-sclerosis-research\/"},"modified":"2018-07-05T15:35:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T19:35:55","slug":"4-7-08-grant-awarded-for-multiple-sclerosis-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/4-7-08-grant-awarded-for-multiple-sclerosis-research\/","title":{"rendered":"4\/3\/08: Grant Awarded for Multiple Sclerosis research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"plain\">\n<p>Ideally, our immune system functions to protect us from dangerous substances. In MS, however, the immune mistakenly targets the brain and spinal cord, damaging the myelin insulation of nerve fibers. Nerve fibers are damaged as well. &#8220;T cells&#8221; are a major player in the immune response, so therapeutic strategies that could prevent activation of T cells are key to treating and possibly preventing MS. This grant aims to boost our understanding of the immune attack and chronic damage to nervous system tissue in MS, yielding potential targets for new treatments.<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"link-external\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uncnews.unc.edu\/news\/health-and-medicine\/unc-researchers-awarded-825000-grant-for-multiple-sclerosis-research.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ideally, our immune system functions to protect us from dangerous substances. In MS, however, the immune mistakenly targets the brain and spinal cord, damaging the myelin insulation of nerve fibers. Nerve fibers are damaged as well. &#8220;T cells&#8221; are a major player in the immune response, so therapeutic strategies that could prevent activation of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/4-7-08-grant-awarded-for-multiple-sclerosis-research\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 4\/3\/08: Grant Awarded for Multiple Sclerosis research\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5952,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>4\/3\/08: Grant Awarded for Multiple Sclerosis research | UNC Neuroscience Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/4-7-08-grant-awarded-for-multiple-sclerosis-research\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"4\/3\/08: Grant Awarded for Multiple Sclerosis research | UNC Neuroscience Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Ideally, our immune system functions to protect us from dangerous substances. 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