Sex, gender and immunosenescence: A key to understand the different lifespan between men and women?

Immunity and Ageing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Caruso, Calogero ^a   Accardi, Giulia ^a   Virruso, Claudia ^a   Candore, Giuseppina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ageing; Gender; Immunosenescence; Sex

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROGESTERONE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; STEROID HORMONE;

ACCIDENT; AGING; ALCOHOLISM; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOOD INTAKE; GENDER AND SEX; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; IMMUNOSENESCENCE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; LYMPHOCYTE; MORTALITY; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; T LYMPHOCYTE; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84881499244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4933-10-20     Document Type: Editorial

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