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Effects of aging, cytomegalovirus infection, and EBV infection on human B cell repertoires.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 15 Jan 2014
Wang Chen, Liu Yi, Xu Lan T, Jackson Katherine J L, Roskin Krishna M, Pham Tho D, Laserson Jonathan, Marshall Eleanor L, Seo Katie, Lee Ji-Yeun, Furman David, Koller Daphne, Dekker Cornelia L, Davis Mark M, Fire Andrew Z, Boyd Scott D
Abstract excerpt
Elderly humans show decreased humoral immunity to pathogens and vaccines, yet the effects of aging on B cells are not fully known. Chronic viral infection by CMV is implicated as a driver of clonal T cell proliferations in some aging humans, but whether CMV or EBV infection contributes to alterat...
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