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Abstract
The competency of the adaptive immune function decreases with age, primarily because of the decline in production of naive lymphocytes in the bone marrow and thymus as well as the expansion of incompetent memory lymphocytes. Here I discuss the recent progress on age-associated changes in lymphocytes and their effect on the adaptive immune system.Mesh:
Year: 2006 PMID: 16713964 PMCID: PMC2266981 DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2006.05.001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Immunity ISSN: 1074-7613 Impact factor: 31.745