Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Site Tools

  • AAAS
  • Subscribe
  • Feedback

Site Search

Search Advanced

Sci. Aging Knowl. Environ., 8 September 2004
Vol. 2004, Issue 36, p. nf82
[DOI: 10.1126/sageke.2004.36.nf82]

NEWS FOCUS

Leashing Leishmania

Some old mice fight parasitic infection better than young mice do

R. John Davenport

http://sageke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2004/36/nf82

Abstract: Most of the people who die from flu each winter are older than 65. But a new study suggests that sometimes age bolsters, rather than cripples, the immune system. In at least one strain of mice, geriatric rodents resist a parasitic skin infection better than youngsters do. The finding highlights the convoluted changes that time imparts on the immune system, although researchers don't yet know how the finding relates to human health.

Citation: R. J. Davenport, Leashing Leishmania. Sci. Aging Knowl. Environ. 2004 (36), nf82 (2004).

Read the Full Text

ADVERTISEMENT
Click Me!

ADVERTISEMENT
Click Me!

To Advertise     Find Products

Science of Aging Knowledge Environment. ISSN 1539-6150