Age-related variation in immunity in a wild mammal population

Aging Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 178-180

  Nussey, Daniel H ^a   Watt, Kathryn ^a   Pilkington, Jill G ^a   Zamoyska, Rose ^a   Mcneilly, Tom N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

T cells; Immunosenescence; Inflammation; Lymphocytes; Na ve T cells; Soay sheep

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; DOMESTICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GAMMA DELTA T LYMPHOCYTE; IMMUNITY; INFLAMMATION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; WILD ANIMAL;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD45; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; LONGEVITY; MAMMALS; SHEEP; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84855831980     PISSN: 14749718     EISSN: 14749726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2011.00771.x     Document Type: Article

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