Elevated proportions of recent thymic emigrants in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes

Rejuvenation Research

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 311-320

  Hofer, Johannes ^a   Hofer, Sabine ^a   Zlamy, Manuela ^a   Jeller, Verena ^a   Koppelstaetter, Christian ^b   Brandstätter, Anita ^b   Kern, Hannelore ^c   Köhle, Julia ^a   Zimmerhackl, Lothar Bernd ^a   Prelog, Martina ^a  

^a Department of Pediatrics   (Austria)

^b Department of Internal Medicine ^*

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD45RA ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; INSULIN; INTERLEUKIN 7;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC PATIENT; DISEASE DURATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN TREATMENT; LONG TERM CARE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REJUVENATION; T CELL RECEPTOR EXCISION CIRCLE; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIGENS, CD45; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHILD; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; HUMANS; INSULIN; INTERLEUKIN-7; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TELOMERE; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 70450230323     PISSN: 15491684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/rej.2009.0863     Document Type: Article

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