Healthy aging is associated with unaltered production of immunoreactive growth hormone but impaired neuroimmunomodulation

NeuroImmunoModulation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 160-169

  Luz, Clarice ^a   Collaziol, Diego ^a   Preissler, Thales ^a   Da Cruz, Ivana M ^b   Glock, Luiz ^a   Bauer, Moisés E ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE REGIONAL DO NOROESTE DO ESTADO DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aging; Glucocorticoids; Immunosenescence; Lymphocytes; Psychoneuroimmunology

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; PRASTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CELL AGING; CELL ISOLATION; CELL STIMULATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SENESCENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AREA UNDER CURVE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; SALIVA; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 33846646544     PISSN: 10217401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000097535     Document Type: Article

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