Immunity aging I. The chronic perduration of the thymus acute involution at puberty? Or the participation of the lymphoid organs and cells in fatal physiologic decline?

Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 49-57

  Mathe, G ^a  

^a Institut de Cancerologie/Immunologie   (France)

Author keywords

immunity aging; perduration; post thymus involution

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MACROPHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REVIEW; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

EID: 0031055449     PISSN: 07533322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0753-3322(97)87726-8     Document Type: Editorial

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