Aging of the recipients but not of the bone marrow donors enhances autoimmunity in syngeneic radiation chimeras

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 95, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 131-142

  Doria, Gino ^a   Mancini, Camillo ^a   Utsuyama, Masanori ^b   Frasca, Daniela ^a   Hirokawa, Katsuiku ^b  

^a ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Autoimmunity; B cells; Radiation chimeras; T cells

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW CELL; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALE; MITOSIS RATE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CHIMERA; RECIPIENT; SPLEEN CELL; STEM CELL; STROMA CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; RADIATION CHIMERA; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSPLANTATION, ISOGENEIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0343052725     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-6374(97)01871-X     Document Type: Article

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