The Senescence of the Immune System
- 1 October 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Hospital Practice
- Vol. 16 (10), 53-64
- https://doi.org/10.1080/21548331.1981.11946847
Abstract
Age-correlated enhancement of susceptibility to infections and to autoimmune diseases suggests the possibility that the programmed decline in physiologic competence, which we know as aging, may be a concomitant of changes primarily manifested in the immune system. The subject of ongoing investigation by immunologists, this hypothesis could have profound clinical implications.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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