... to in the content or advertisements. Naturally occurring regulatory T cells Inducible regulatory T cells Immune aging Just like other organ systems, the immune system is susceptible to age-related changes, overall resulting in a deteriorating immune competence and a shift in the balance between...

...M. Hartwig Acquisition of immunologic self-tolerance by clonal deletion in the thymus is concluded to be a critical process in immune aging and is found to be transiently protected from genetic instability by means of a feedback surveillance which functions at the expense of chronic thymic...