Ageing and life-long maintenance of T-cell subsets in the face of latent persistent infections

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 512-522

  Nikolich Žugich, Janko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; DNA; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 7; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL RENEWAL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA REPAIR; EFFECTOR CELL; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HERPES VIRUS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MEMORY CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LATENCY;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HERPES SIMPLEX; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INFECTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 46249132015     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri2318     Document Type: Review

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