Immune Responses Accelerate Ageing: Proof-of-Principle in an Insect Model

The pathology of many of the world's most important infectious diseases is caused by the immune response. Additionally age-related disease is often attributed to inflammatory responses. Consequently a reduction in infections and hence inflammation early in life has been hypothesized to explain...

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Main Authors: Pursall, E. Rhiannon, Rolff, Jens
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3097213/