Immunosenescence (Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious by Andreas Thiel

By Andreas Thiel

As participants age, their skill to reply to and clear pathogens and to manage undesirable immune reactions declines, resulting in a better prevalence of sure infectious ailments, autoimmunity and basic immune dysfunctions. such a lot remarkably, the efficacy of vaccines is usually lowered in aged individuals. as a result, age-associated dysfunctions of the humoral and mobile immune responses have a robust medical impression. enhancing our knowing of the elderly immune approach is important in constructing powerful prevention and remedy courses that would facilitate fit getting older and enhance the standard of lifetime of the aged population.

The goal of this quantity is to summarize present wisdom at the mobile and molecular points of the getting older immune approach, with an emphasis on infectious illnesses and new healing approaches.

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