Immunosenescence and its potential modulation: Lessons from mouse models

Expert Review of Clinical Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 353-357

  Boldizsar, Ferenc ^a   Mikecz, Katalin ^b   Glant, Tibor T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive immunity; Aging; Epigenome; Immunosenescence; Infection; Innate immunity

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; IMMUNOSENESCENCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; NOTE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AGING; ANIMALS; DENDRITIC CELLS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; NEUTROPHILS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 77952040975     PISSN: 1744666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/eci.10.16     Document Type: Note

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