Aging and asthma - changes in CD45RA, CD29 and CD95 T cells subsets
BACKGROUND: Aging is associated with thymus involution leading to a reduction in naive T cells and to an accumulation of effector-memory cells. Apoptosis is a key mechanism to clear the immune system from activated and harmful cells. In asthma the stimulation of T cells by environmental antigens can...
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| Formato: | article |
| Idioma: | eng |
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2011
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| Texto completo: | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.4/1027 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:rihuc.huc.min-saude.pt:10400.4/1027 |