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Editorial
. 2012 Feb;91(2):185-7.
doi: 10.1189/jlb.0811438.

Editorial: T cell memory, bone marrow, and aging: the good news

Rita B Effros
Editorial

Editorial: T cell memory, bone marrow, and aging: the good news

Rita B Effros. J Leukoc Biol. 2012 Feb.

Abstract

Discussion on the accumulating evidence that bone marrow in old age is not simply the place where immune cells are generated but the where certain memory cells selectively return to provide a set of distinct immune functions during old age.

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