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Age-related accumulation of T cells with markers of relatively stronger autoreactivity leads to functional erosion of T cells.
BMC immunology - 9 Feb 2012
Tatari-Calderone Zohreh, Stojakovic Milica, Dewan Ramita, Le Bouder Gama, Jankovic Dragana, Vukmanovic Stanislav
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Thymic involution is a prominent characteristic of an aging immune system. When thymic function is reduced/absent, the peripheral T cell pool is subject to the laws of peripheral T cell homeostasis that favor survival/expansion of T cell receptors with relatively higher functional avidity for self-peptide/MHC complexes. Due to difficulties in assessing the TCR avidity in polyclonal population of T...
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