{"id":108210,"date":"2020-06-05T12:03:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T19:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/t-cell-immunity-in-the-elderly"},"modified":"2020-06-05T12:03:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T19:03:50","slug":"t-cell-immunity-in-the-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/t-cell-immunity-in-the-elderly","title":{"rendered":"T cell immunity in the elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/t-cell-immunity-in-the-elderly.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study by Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) expands the understanding of the molecular pathways that control T cell function and survival and how it relates to declining T cell immunity in the elderly.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, led by Monash BDI\u2019s Professor Nicole La Gruta and Dr. Kylie Quinn (formerly of Monash University BDI, now Vice-Chancellor\u2019s Research Fellow at RMIT University), outline that the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/increased+metabolism\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">increased metabolism<\/a> of T cells observed with advanced age was an indication that they were working harder merely to survive.<\/p>\n<p>This contradicts previous knowledge, which suggested an increased metabolism was indicative of T cell function, and will have implications for the development of targeted interventions such as vaccines or immunotherapies to treat age-related immune dysfunction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study by Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) expands the understanding of the molecular pathways that control T cell function and survival and how it relates to declining T cell immunity in the elderly. The findings, published in Nature Communications, led by Monash BDI\u2019s Professor Nicole La Gruta and Dr. Kylie Quinn (formerly of Monash [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}