Aging and the skin immune system

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 133, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1256-1262

  Sunderkötter, Cord ^a   Kalden, Henner ^a   Luger, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ALPHA INTERMEDIN; ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; AUTOANTIBODY; CD16 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; DNA; FAS ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; HERMES ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; L SELECTIN; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN RADICAL; PERFORIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; STEROID HORMONE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; AGING; APOPTOSIS; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; KERATINOCYTE; LANGERHANS CELL; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; SKIN; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 1842367287     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.133.10.1256     Document Type: Review

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