Handbook of Immunosenescence Basic Understanding and Clinical Implications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fulop, Tamas (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Franceschi, Claudio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Hirokawa, Katsuiku (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pawelec, Graham (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Biomedicine, general.

Immunosenescence is an imprecise term used to describe deleterious age-associated changes to immune parameters observed in all mammals studied so far. It represents a rapidly progressing science in the aging field, with a vertiginous volume of new data, knowledge and concepts concerning these change...

Table of Contents:

• Methods and Models for Studying Immunosenescence
• Methods for studying human immunosenescence in tissues other than blood
• Mechanisms - Receptors and Signal Transduction
• Clinical Relevance in Disease States - Infection
• Modulation
• Nutrition.