Innate immunosenescence: Effect of aging on cells and receptors of the innate immune system in humans

Seminars in Immunology - Tập 24 - Trang 331-341 - 2012
Rafael Solana1, Raquel Tarazona2, Inmaculada Gayoso1, Olivier Lesur3, Gilles Dupuis4, Tamas Fulop5
1Immunology Unit, Instituto Maimonides para la Investigacion Biomedica de Cordoba (IMIBIC)-University of Cordoba-Hospital Reina Sofia, Cordoba, Spain
2Immunology Unit, Department of Physiology, University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain
3Etienne Lebel Research Center and Divisions of Pneumology & Intensive Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
4Department of Biochemistry, Immunology Postgraduate Programme, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
5Research Center on Aging, Department of Medicine, Immunology Postgraduate Programme, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

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