Androgen supplementation improves some but not all aspects of immune senescence in aged male macaques

GeroScience

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 373-384

  Rais, Maham ^a   Wilson, Randall M ^b   Urbanski, Henryk F ^c,d   Messaoudi, Ilhem ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgens; Andropause; Immune senescence; Inflammation; Rhesus macaques; T cells

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIFESPAN; MALE; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; RHESUS MONKEY; SENESCENCE; SUPPLEMENTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; VACCINATION;

EID: 85020732265     PISSN: 25092715     EISSN: 25092723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-017-9979-5     Document Type: Article

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