Impact of niche aging on thymic regeneration and immune reconstitution

Seminars in Immunology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 331-340

  Chidgey, Ann ^a   Dudakov, Jarrod ^a   Seach, Natalie ^a   Boyd, Richard ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; Involution; Regeneration; Sex steroids; Thymus

Indexed keywords

1,1' [1,4 PHENYLENEBIS(METHYLENE)]BIS(1,4,8,11 TETRAAZACYCLOTETRADECANE); ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; FLT3 LIGAND; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH HORMONE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INTERLEUKIN 7; KERATINOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; PARATHYROID HORMONE; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 7; SOMATOMEDIN C; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

AGING; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW; CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFER; LYMPHOCYTOPOIESIS; LYMPHOID ORGAN; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; REGENERATION; REVIEW; STEM CELL MOBILIZATION; STROMA CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THYMUS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

AGING; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 7; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTERLEUKIN-7; LYMPHOPOIESIS; REGENERATION; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 36549062401     PISSN: 10445323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2007.10.006     Document Type: Review

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