Autoimmune diseases, aging and the CD4+ lymphocyte : why does insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus start in youth, but rheumatoid arthritis mostly at older age? / Jacek M. Witkowski -- Role of chemokines and chemokine receptors in diseases of ageing / Erminia Mariani, Adriana Rita Mariani and Andrea Facchini -- The efficacy of vaccines to prevent infectious diseases in the elderly / Dietmar Herndler-Brandstetter and Beatrix Grubeck-Loebenstein -- Zinc and the altered immune system in the elderly / Hajo Haase and Lothar Rink
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Immune risk phenotypes and associated parameters in very old humans : a review of findings in the Swedish NONA immune longitudinal study / Anders Wikby ... [et al.] -- Scoring of immunological vigor : trial assessment of immunological status as a whole for elderly people and cancer patients / Katsuiku Hirokawa ... [et al.] -- Remodelling of the CD8 T-cell compartment in the elderly : expression of NK associated receptors on T-cells is associated with the expansion of the effector memory subset / Inmaculada Gayoso ... [et al.] --
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Telomeres, telomerase, and CD28 in human CD8 T-cells : effects on immunity during aging and HIV infection / Steven R. Fauce and Rita B. Effros -- A matter of life and death of T-lymphocytes in immunosenescence / Sudhir Gupta -- T-cell signalling, a complex process for T-cell activation compromised with aging : when membrane rafts can simplify everything / Tamas Fulop... [et al.] -- Immunosenescence, thymic involution and autoimmunity / Wayne A. Mitchell and Richard Aspinall
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Zinc-binding proteins and immunosenescence : implications as biological and genetic markers / Eugenio Mocchegiani and Marco Malavolta -- Immunogenetics of aging / Elissaveta J. Naumova and Milena I. Ivanova -- The genetics of innate immunity and inflammation in ageing, age-related diseases and longevity / Calogero Caruso ... [et al.] -- SELDI proteomics approach to identify proteins associated with T-cell clone senescence / Dawn J. Mazzatti ... [et al.]