Aging and the microbiome: Implications for asthma in the elderly?

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 125-128

  Chotirmall, Sanjay H ^a,b   Burke, Conor M ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Stroke and Hypertension Unit   (Ireland)

Author keywords

asthma; elderly; immunosenescence; inflammation; late onset; microbiome

Indexed keywords

AGING; ASTHMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; MICROBIOME; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; AGE; AGED; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT MUCOSA; RISK FACTOR;

ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANIMALS; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; MICROBIOTA; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84924968148     PISSN: 17476348     EISSN: 17476356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17476348.2015.1002473     Document Type: Review

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