Granulocyte and natural killer activity in the elderly

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-38

  Di Lorenzo, Gabriele ^a   Balistreri, Carmela R ^b   Candore, Giuseppina ^b   Cigna, Diego ^c   Colombo, Alfredo ^b   Romano, Giuseppina Colonna ^c   Colucci, Antonio Tobia ^b   Gervasi, Francesco ^d   Listì, Florinda ^b   Potestio, Marcella ^c   Caruso, Calogero ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b Istituto di Patologia Generale   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^d Servizio di Patologia Clinica ARNAS   (Italy)

Author keywords

CD16; CD95; Chemotaxis; Elderly; Immunosenescence; NK; Superoxide

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CHEMOTAXIS; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOREGULATION; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS;

EID: 0033119061     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-6374(98)00156-0     Document Type: Article

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