ArticleInfection and immunity1998
Aging and the immune response to the Haemophilus influenzae type b capsular polysaccharide: retention of the dominant idiotype and antibody function in the elderly.
Article in Infection and immunity, 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Immune defects in the risk of infection and response to vaccination in monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance and multiple myeloma.Frontiers in immunology · 2014Review
- Bone marrow microenvironmental changes underlie reduced RAG-mediated recombination and B cell generation in aged mice.The Journal of experimental medicine · 2004Article
- Disparity in functional activity between serum anticapsular antibodies induced in adults by immunization with an investigational group A and C Neisseria meningitidis-diphtheria toxoid conjugate vaccine and by a polysaccharide vaccine.Infection and immunity · 2003Article
- Antibody repertoires in infants and adults: effects of T-independent and T-dependent immunizations.Springer seminars in immunopathology · 2001Review
- Polysaccharide binding potential of the human A2 or A18 kappa light chain homologues.Infection and immunity · 1999Article
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Abstract
Anti-Haemophilus influenzae b polysaccharide (Hib PS) antibodies elicited in elderly subjects following conjugate vaccination expressed a light-chain variable-region (VL)-associated idiotype and had functional activities similar to those previously observed in children and younger adults. These findings indicate that advanced age is not accompanied by shifts in the major VL component of the Hib PS-specific repertoire or by diminution of the protective function of antibodies.
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