Immunosenescence
By: [edited by] Graham Pawelec.
Contributors: Pawelec, G.
Series: Medical intelligence unit; Medical intelligence unit (Unnumbered : 2003)
Publisher: Landes Bioscience; Springer Science+Business Media
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Austin, Tex; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780387768403
Subjects: Immune system -- Aging; Aging -- Immunological aspects; Aging -- immunology; Immunity -- physiology; Age Factors; Disease Susceptibility -- immunology; Longevity -- immunology; Longitudinal Studies; T-Lymphocytes -- immunology
Table of contents: title: Immune risk phenotypes and associated parameters in very old humans : a review of findings in the Swedish NONA immune longitudinal study / Anders Wikby ... [et al.]; title: Scoring of immunological vigor : trial assessment of immunological status as a whole for elderly people and cancer patients / Katsuiku Hirokawa ... [et al.]; title: Remodelling of the CD8 T-cell compartment in the elderly : expression of NK associated receptors on T-cells is associated with the expansion of the effector memory subset / Inmaculada Gayoso ... [et al.]; title: Telomeres, telomerase, and CD28 in human CD8 T-cells : effects on immunity during aging and HIV infection / Steven R. Fauce and Rita B. Effros; title: A matter of life and death of T-lymphocytes in immunosenescence / Sudhir Gupta; title: T-cell signalling, a complex process for T-cell activation compromised with aging : when membrane rafts can simplify everything / Tamas Fulop... [et al.]; title: Immunosenescence, thymic involution and autoimmunity / Wayne A. Mitchell and Richard Aspinall.; title: Autoimmune diseases, aging and the CD4+ lymphocyte : why does insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus start in youth, but rheumatoid arthritis mostly at older age? / Jacek M. Witkowski; title: Role of chemokines and chemokine receptors in diseases of ageing / Erminia Mariani, Adriana Rita Mariani and Andrea Facchini; title: The efficacy of vaccines to prevent infectious diseases in the elderly / Dietmar Herndler-Brandstetter and Beatrix Grubeck-Loebenstein; title: Zinc and the altered immune system in the elderly / Hajo Haase and Lothar Rink.; title: Zinc-binding proteins and immunosenescence : implications as biological and genetic markers / Eugenio Mocchegiani and Marco Malavolta; title: Immunogenetics of aging / Elissaveta J. Naumova and Milena I. Ivanova; title: The genetics of innate immunity and inflammation in ageing, age-related diseases and longevity / Calogero Caruso ... [et al.]; title: SELDI proteomics approach to identify proteins associated with T-cell clone senescence / Dawn J. Mazzatti ... [et al.].