Reversing T cell immunosenescence: Why, who, and how

Age

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 609-620

  Lang, Pierre Olivier ^a,b   Govind, Sheila ^b   Aspinall, Richard ^b  

^a University of GenevaMedical School and University Hospitals   (Switzerland)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell mediated immunity; Healthy aging; Immunosenescence; Thymus TREC; TREC ratio

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL AGING; CELL EXPANSION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSENESCENCE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENESCENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; TREND STUDY;

AGING; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84880571140     PISSN: 01619152     EISSN: 15744647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-012-9393-y     Document Type: Article

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