Immunology and Microbiology
8 years ago

Elderly Individuals Show Decreased Immune Cell Cloning Efficiency.

Scandinavian Journal of Immunology
Decreased Cloning of Lymphocytes from Elderly Individuals
Anna Chrysostomou, R. Seshadri, Alexander A. Morley

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Elderly people have fewer active immune cells than young people. This is because their immune cells don't multiply as well as young people's cells do. This means that elderly people's immune systems may not work as effectively as young people's.