Age-related declines in immune response in a wild mammal are unrelated to immune cell telomere length

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1825, 2016, Pages

  Beirne, Christopher ^a   Waring, Laura ^b   McDonald, Robbie A ^a   Delahay, Richard ^b   Young, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Eco immunology; Immune competence; Immunity; Multivariate; Wild population

Indexed keywords

AGING; BLOOD; CHROMOSOME; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSTELID; SENESCENCE; TUBERCULOSIS; WILD POPULATION;

BOVINAE; MAMMALIA; MELES MELES;

GAMMA INTERFERON;

AGING; ANIMAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; METABOLISM; MUSTELIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; TELOMERE; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MALE; MUSTELIDAE; TELOMERE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84958787289     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2949     Document Type: Article

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