Role of chronic cytomegalovirus infection in T-cell immunosenescence and frailty: More questions than answers

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2363-2365

  Leng, Sean X ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN B; HLA ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS DNA;

AGED; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; EDITORIAL; FRAIL ELDERLY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; COGNITION DISORDERS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE;

EID: 84055177197     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03815.x     Document Type: Editorial

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