Ageing and the immune system in vivo: Commentary on the 16th session of British Society for Immunology Annual Congress, Harrogate, December 2004

Richard Aspinall

doi:10.1186/1742-4933-2-5

Ageing and the immune system in vivo: Commentary on the 16th session of British Society for Immunology Annual Congress, Harrogate, December 2004

Richard Aspinall

Chelsea and Westminister Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Abstract

The problems associated with the ageing immune system coupled with possible solutions were discussed recently at the British Society for Immunology Annual Congress in Harrogate in December 2004. The session "Ageing and the Immune System in vivo" dealt in details with the immune risk phenotype and the potential methods of reversing the problems of an ageing immune system. This is a commentary on that session.

Original language	English
Article number	5
Journal	Immunity and Ageing
Volume	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-4933-2-5
Publication status	Published - 22 Feb 2005
Externally published	Yes

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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords

Telomere Length
Chemical Castration
Thymic Output
Thymic Atrophy
British Society

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Immunology
Ageing

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