Clinical Immune Survey of the Longitudinal Project Participants

Adler, W H.

Abstract

These studies collect information on the immune function of participants in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging to determine age-associated changes, and to determine the relationship of these changes to an individuals diet, exercise habits, psychological coping mechanisms as well as to the development of clinical diseases. A further ongoing goal is to evaluate existing assays of immune function in regards to their ability to provide an accurate and clinically useful assessment of human immune competence.

Funding Agency

• Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Institute: National Institute on Aging (NIA)
• Type: Intramural Research (Z01)
• Project #: 1Z01AG000104-12
• Application #: 3821427
• Support Year: 12
• Fiscal Year: 1987

Institution

• Name: Aging
• Country: United States

Publications

Lustig, Ana; Carter, Arnell; Bertak, Dorothy et al. (2009) Transcriptome analysis of murine thymocytes reveals age-associated changes in thymic gene expression. Int J Med Sci 6:51-64

Nguyen, Dzung H; Taub, Dennis (2002) Cholesterol is essential for macrophage inflammatory protein 1 beta binding and conformational integrity of CC chemokine receptor 5. Blood 99:4298-306

Nguyen, Dzung H; Taub, Dennis (2002) CXCR4 function requires membrane cholesterol: implications for HIV infection. J Immunol 168:4121-6

Mascarucci, Paolo; Taub, Dennis; Saccani, Simona et al. (2002) Cytokine responses in young and old rhesus monkeys: effect of caloric restriction. J Interferon Cytokine Res 22:565-71

Mascarucci, P; Taub, D; Saccani, S et al. (2001) Age-related changes in cytokine production by leukocytes in rhesus monkeys. Aging (Milano) 13:85-94

Kalehua, A N; Taub, D D; Baskar, P V et al. (2000) Aged mice exhibit greater mortality concomitant to increased brain and plasma TNF-alpha levels following intracerebroventricular injection of lipopolysaccharide. Gerontology 46:115-28

Alexandroff, A B; Jackson, A M; Paterson, T et al. (2000) Role for CD40-CD40 ligand interactions in the immune response to solid tumours. Mol Immunol 37:515-26

Murphy, W J; Funakoshi, S; Fanslow, W C et al. (1999) CD40 stimulation promotes human secondary immunoglobulin responses in HuPBL-SCID chimeras. Clin Immunol 90:22-7

Kirken, R A; Erwin, R A; Taub, D et al. (1999) Tyrphostin AG-490 inhibits cytokine-mediated JAK3/STAT5a/b signal transduction and cellular proliferation of antigen-activated human T cells. J Leukoc Biol 65:891-9

Janik, J E; Miller, L L; Kopp, W C et al. (1999) Treatment with tumor necrosis factor-alpha and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor increases epidermal Langerhans' cell numbers in cancer patients. Clin Immunol 93:209-21