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BioMed Central, Immunity and Ageing, 1(7), 2010

DOI: 10.1186/1742-4933-7-13

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Immunosenescence and Cytomegalovirus: where do we stand after a decade?

Journal article published in 2010 by Graham Pawelec ORCID, Arne Akbar, Peter Beverley ORCID, Calogero Caruso, Evelyna Derhovanessian, Tamas Fülöp, Paul Griffiths, Beatrix Grubeck-Loebenstein, Klaus Hamprecht, Gerhard Jahn, Florian Kern, Sven D. Koch, Anis Larbi, Andrea B. Maier, Derek Macallan and other authors.
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Abstract

AbstractSince Looney at al. published their seminal paper a decade ago it has become clear that many of the differences in T cell immunological parameters observed between young and old people are related to the age-associated increasing prevalence of infection with the persistent beta-herpesvirus HHV-5 (Cytomegalovirus). Ten years later, studies suggest that hallmark age-associated changes in peripheral blood T cell subset distribution may not occur at all in people who are not infected with this virus. Whether the observed changes are actually caused by CMV is an open question, but very similar, rapid changes observed in uninfected patients receiving CMV-infected kidney grafts are consistent with a causative role. This meeting intensively discussed these and other questions related to the impact of CMV on human immune status and its relevance for immune function in later life. ; RIGHTS : This article is licensed under the BioMed Central licence at http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/license which is similar to the 'Creative Commons Attribution Licence'. In brief you may : copy, distribute, and display the work; make derivative works; or make commercial use of the work - under the following conditions: the original author must be given credit; for any reuse or distribution, it must be made clear to others what the license terms of this work are.