Reversal of thymic atrophy

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 673-678

  Henson, Sian M ^a   Pido Lopez, Jeffrey ^a   Aspinall, Richard ^a  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atrophy; DECs; IL 7; Thymus; TRECs

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 7; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

AGING; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MATURATION; CELL REGENERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INVOLUTION; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION; MEMORY CELL; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS ATROPHY;

AGING; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-7; MICE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 1642421810     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2003.10.030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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