Obesity accelerates thymic aging

Blood

Volumn 114, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 3803-3812

  Yang, Hyunwon ^a   Youm, Yun Hee ^a   Vandanmagsar, Bolormaa ^a   Rood, Jennifer ^a   Kumar, K Ganesh ^a   Butler, Andrew A ^a   Dixit, Vishwa Deep ^a  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; FLT3 LIGAND; GAMMA INTERFERON; HERMES ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 4 RECEPTOR; STEM CELL ANTIGEN 1; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGEN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL AGING; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECTOR CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; INFECTION RISK; INVOLUTION; LYMPHOID CELL; LYMPHOID PROGENITOR CELL; MALE; MEMORY CELL; MOUSE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOPOIESIS; THYMUS; AGING; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; MOUSE MUTANT; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

ADIPOSITY; AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGIC SURVEILLANCE; INFECTION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 4; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RISK FACTORS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 70449701826     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2009-03-213595     Document Type: Article

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