Healthy Aging and Latent Infection with CMV Lead to Distinct Changes in CD8+ and CD4+ T-Cell Subsets in the Elderly

Human Immunology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 86-90

  Weinberger, Birgit ^a   Lazuardi, Lutfan ^a   Weiskirchner, Ilka ^a   Keller, Michael ^a   Neuner, Christoph ^b   Fischer, Karl Heinz ^b   Neuman, Ber ^b   Würzner, Reinhard ^c   Grubeck Loebenstein, Beatrix ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b County of Tyrol ^*  (Austria)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

aging; CD4+; CD8+; CMV; T cell subsets

Indexed keywords

CD28 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45RA ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; EFFECTOR CELL; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFECTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; VIRUS LATENCY;

EID: 33847120921     PISSN: 01988859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humimm.2006.10.019     Document Type: Article

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