The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Zhang, Nu
Funded by
NIH-ALLERGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES
After successful clearance of an infection, a significant number of memory T cells remain in both lymphoid andnon-lymphoid tissues to protect against re-infection. Tissue-resident memory T (TRM) cells are a population ofmemory T cells localized to non-lymphoid tissues without continuous re-circulation.
The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Yeh, Chih-Ko
Funded by
NIH-DENTAL & CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH
Oral health is associated with nutritional intake and overall well-being in elderly populations and progressivelydeteriorates with aging. In addition, salivary gland function, which plays a major role in oral defense, alsodecreases with age. However, the mechanisms involved in this age-related decline have not beencomprehensively studied due to a lack of proper laboratory animal models for studying changes in oral healthwith aging. The common marmoset is a relatively short-lived non-human primate (NHP) that recapitulates manyof the physiological changes that occur in human aging.
