Efforts of the human immune system to maintain the peripheral CD8+ T cell compartment after childhood thymectomy

Immunity and Ageing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Zlamy, Manuela ^a   Almanzar, Giovanni ^b   Parson, Walther ^a,c   Schmidt, Christian ^d   Leierer, Johannes ^e   Weinberger, Birgit ^f   Jeller, Verena ^a   Unsinn, Karin ^a   Eyrich, Matthias ^b   Würzner, Reinhard ^a   Prelog, Martina ^b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^e INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

CD8; CMV; Naive T cells; TCR diversity; Telomeres; Thymectomy; TRECs

Indexed keywords

CD103 ANTIGEN; CD31 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; KI 67 ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; THYMECTOMY;

EID: 84956627545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12979-016-0058-z     Document Type: Article

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