The aging of the adaptive immune system

Current Immunology Reviews

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 94-103

  Herndler Brandstetter, Dietmar ^a   Weinberger, Birgit ^a   Pfister, Gerald ^a   Weiskopf, Daniela ^a   Grubeck Loebenstein, Beatrix ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aging; B cell; Cytomegalovirus; T cell; Th17; Treg

Indexed keywords

CD27 ANTIGEN; CD28 ANTIGEN; CD31 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45RA ANTIGEN; CD45RO ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; FAS ANTIGEN; GROWTH HORMONE; HERMES ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 23; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 7; KERATINOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 1; SOMATOMEDIN C; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AGING; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH17 CELL; THYMUS; VACCINATION;

EID: 79551672589     PISSN: 15733955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157339511794474190     Document Type: Article

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