Cellular signalling pathways in immune aging and regeneration

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 651-656

  Aspinall, Richard ^a   Lapenna, Antonio ^b   B Lynch, Christopher ^a   Lang, Pierre O ^a,c  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c Nescens Centre of Preventive Medicine   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Epithelial cell; Fibroblast; Thymic progenitor; Thymocyte; Thymus

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 7;

AGING; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; IMMUNE AGING; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOASSAY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; KERATINOCYTE; MALE; MONOLAYER CULTURE; MOUSE MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRE T LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T CELL RECEPTOR EXCISION CIRCLE ASSAY; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; THYMUS ATROPHY; TISSUE REGENERATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; REGENERATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 84901500923     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20140021     Document Type: Article

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