Telomere length as an indicator of the robustness of B- and T-cell response to influenza in older adults

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 212, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1261-1269

  Najarro, Kevin ^a   Nguyen, Huy ^a   Chen, Guobing ^a   Xu, Mai ^a   Alcorta, Sandy ^a   Yao, Xu ^a   Zukley, Linda ^a   Metter, E Jeffrey ^a   Truong, Thai ^a   Lin, Yun ^a   Li, Huifen ^a   Oelke, Mathias ^a   Xu, Xiyan ^b   Ling, Shari M ^a   Longo, Dan L ^c   Schneck, Jonathan ^a   Leng, Sean ^a   Ferrucci, Luigi ^a   Weng, Nan Ping ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

antibody; CD28 T cells; CD8 T cells; CMV; influenza vaccine; telomere

Indexed keywords

HLA A2 ANTIGEN; INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIVISION; CELL EXPANSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLUENZA; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MONOCYTE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TELOMERE; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TITRATION; AGE; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; HLA-A2 ANTIGEN; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84943419230     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv202     Document Type: Article

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