Altered thymic activity in early life: How does it affect the immune system in young adults?

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 543-548

  Sauce, Delphine ^a   Appay, Victor ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 17;

AGING; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTOPOIESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; DOWN SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYMPHOPENIA; LYMPHOPOIESIS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMECTOMY; THYMUS GLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052390891     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: 18790372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2011.05.001     Document Type: Review

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