A Salminen, J Huuskonen, J Ojala, A Kauppinen… - Ageing research …, 2008 - Elsevier
Innate and adaptive immunity are the major defence mechanisms of higher organisms against inherent and environmental threats. Innate immunity is present already in unicellular …
C Selman, S Lingard, AI Choudhury… - The FASEB …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Recent evidence suggests that alterations in insulin/insulin–like growth factor 1 (IGF1) signaling (IIS) can increase mammalian life span. For example, in several mouse mutants …
Recently, the term" inflammaging" was coined by Franceshci and colleagues to characterize a widely accepted paradigm that ageing is accompanied by a low-grade chronic up …
A Larbi, C Franceschi, D Mazzatti, R Solana… - …, 2008 - journals.physiology.org
Accumulating data are documenting an inverse relationship between immune status, response to vaccination, health, and longevity, suggesting that the immune system becomes …
Y Guigoz, J Doré, EJ Schiffrin - Current Opinion in Clinical …, 2008 - journals.lww.com
The inflammatory status of old age can be nurtured from the... : Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care The inflammatory status of old age can be nurtured from the …
R Ostan, L Bucci, M Capri, S Salvioli, M Scurti… - …, 2008 - karger.com
At present, individuals can live up to 80–120 years, a time much longer than that of our ancestors, as a consequence of the improvements in life conditions and medical care. Thus …
E Derhovanessian, R Solana, A Larbi, G Pawelec - Immunity & Ageing, 2008 - Springer
Compromised immunity contributes to the decreased ability of the elderly to control infectious disease and to their generally poor response to vaccination. It is controversial as …
L Kaszubowska - J Physiol Pharmacol, 2008 - Citeseer
Telomeres are protein-DNA complexes localized at the ends of linear chromosomes constituted by short, tandem G-rich hexanucleotide repeats and associated proteins. Their …