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Role of the Immune System in Aging

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Since the turn of the century, there has been a continuum of medical breakthroughs controlling life-shortening diseases. As a consequence, more people are now living longer than they were at the turn of the century. Unfortunately, life extension means chronic disorders to many of the elderly. This has created a trememdous socio-economic burden throughout the world. Thus, during the past decade, there has been a growing emphasis in biomedical research towards control of age-related chronic disorders, in order to enable the elderly to extend their healthy years of life.

This is publication no. 026 from GRECC, VA Wadsworth Medical Center, which has been supported in part by The Medical Research Service of VA and the Department of Energy (Grant no. ET 76-S-03-0034 P.A. 264).

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Makinodan, T. (1980). Role of the Immune System in Aging. In: Oota, K., Iriki, M., Makinodan, T., Baker, L.S. (eds) Aging Phenomena. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 129. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3734-8_19

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