Immunosenescence - Inevitable or preventable?

Current Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 126-130

  Kalula, Sebastiana Zimba ^a   Ross, Kathleen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTITHYROID AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 12; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; STEROID; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; VARICELLA ZOSTER VACCINE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AGING; B LYMPHOCYTE; COMORBIDITY; EXERCISE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 69749090029     PISSN: 16093607     EISSN: 16093607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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