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Abstract
The human immune system comprises cellular and molecular components designed to coordinately prevent infection while avoiding potentially harmful inflammation and autoimmunity. Immunity varies with age, reflecting unique age-dependent challenges including fetal gestation, the neonatal phase, and infancy. Here, we review novel mechanistic insights into early life immunity, with an emphasis on emerging models of human immune ontogeny, which may inform age-specific translational development of novel anti-infectives, immunomodulators, and vaccines.Entities:
Keywords: Toll-like receptor; dendritic cell; immune ontogeny; newborn infant; vaccines
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24880460 PMCID: PMC4109609 DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2014.04.007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Immunol ISSN: 1471-4906 Impact factor: 16.687