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Advanced Age Alters Monocyte and Macrophage Responses.
Antioxidants & redox signaling - 20 Nov 2016
Albright Joslyn M, Dunn Robert C, Shults Jill A, Boe Devin M, Afshar Majid, Kovacs Elizabeth J
Abstract excerpt
SIGNIFICANCE: With the growing population of baby boomers, there is a great need to determine the effects of advanced age on the function of the immune system. Recent Advances: It is universally accepted that advanced age is associated with a chronic low-grade inflammatory state that is referred to as inflamm-aging, which alters the function of both immune and nonimmune cells. Mononuclear phagocytes play a...
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