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Age-related dysregulation of CD8+ T cell memory specific for a persistent virus is independent of viral replication.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Apr 2008
Lang Anna, Brien James D, Messaoudi Ilhem, Nikolich-Zugich Janko
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The immune system devotes substantial resources to the lifelong control of persistent pathogens, which were hypothesized to play an important role in immune aging. Specifically, the presence of latent herpesviruses has been correlated with immune exhaustion and shorter lifespan in octogenarians. But neither the causality nor the mechanistic link(s) were established, and the relative roles of persistent antigenic...
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