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Physiologic Thymic Involution Underlies Age-Dependent Accumulation of Senescence-Associated CD4+ T Cells.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Jul 2017
Sato Kyosuke, Kato Aiko, Sekai Miho, Hamazaki Yoko, Minato Nagahiro
Abstract excerpt
Immune aging may underlie various aging-related disorders, including diminished resistance to infection, chronic inflammatory disorders, and autoimmunity. PD-1+ and CD153+ CD44high CD4+ T cells with features of cellular senescence, termed senescence-associated T (SA-T) cells, increasingly accumulate with age and may play a role in the immune aging phenotype. In this article, we demonstrate that, compared with...
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