Increased IL-21 secretion by aged CD4+T cells is associated with prolonged STAT-4 activation and CMV seropositivity

Aging

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 648-659

  Agrawal, Anshu ^a   Su, Houfen ^a   Chen, Justine ^a   Osann, Kathryn ^a   Agrawal, Sudhanshu ^a   Gupta, Sudhir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cytomegalovirus; IL 21; STAT 4; T follicular helper cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872577143     PISSN: 19454589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/aging.100490     Document Type: Article

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