Thymic fatness and approaches to enhance thymopoietic fitness in aging

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 521-528

  Dixit, Vishwa Deep ^a  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALVASCULIN; GHRELIN; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETAGOGUE; LEPTIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN A; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOGENESIS; AGING; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CELL AGING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL REGENERATION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; INVOLUTION; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRE T LYMPHOCYTE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; STROMA CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADIPOCYTES; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGING; HUMANS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 77955661045     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2010.06.010     Document Type: Review

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