Sex, the aging immune system, and chronic disease

Cellular Immunology

Volumn 294, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 102-110

  Gubbels Bupp, Melanie R ^a  

^a RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Atherosclerosis; Autoimmunity; Chronic inflammatory diseases; Immune system; Sex hormones; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; SEX HORMONE;

AGING; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MENOPAUSE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; AGED; BLOOD; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; POSTMENOPAUSE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANDROGENS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; B-LYMPHOCYTES; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGES; MALE; NEUTROPHILS; POSTMENOPAUSE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84930911630     PISSN: 00088749     EISSN: 10902163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2015.02.002     Document Type: Review

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