Proceedings of a symposium on 'Immunosenescence - A major cause of disease in the elderly: From molecules to patients' summary

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 407-411

  Grubeck Loebenstein, B ^a   Wick, G ^a  

^a Institute for Biomedical Aging Research   (Austria)

Author keywords

Disease; Immunosenescence; Patients

Indexed keywords

ARTHRITIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMMUNOREGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE;

AGED; AGING; EUROPE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM DISEASES; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; RESEARCH;

EID: 0033008470     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(99)00014-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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