The janus head of T cell aging-autoimmunity and immunodeficiency

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Goronzy, Jörg J ^a,b   Li, Guangjin ^a,b   Yang, Zhen ^a   Weyand, Cornelia M ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Dna damage response; Giant cell arteritis; Immunosenescence; Inflammation; Pathogenesis; Rheumatoid arthritis; T cell receptor signaling

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 7; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NON RECEPTOR PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE 22; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DNA DAMAGE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 84883815576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2013.00131     Document Type: Article

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