ABSTRACT. This work investigates how thymic dysfunction contributes to the depression of cell-mediated immunity in protein-energy malnutrition (PEM). In Bolivian children hospitalized for severe PEM, the size of the thymus ...

T lymphocytes, from their first encounter with their specific antigen as naive cell until the last stages of their differentiation, in a replicative state of senescence, go through a series of phases. In several of these ...

Immunotherapy is currently regarded as the most promising treatment to fight against cancer. This is particularly true in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, an indolent neoplastic disease of B-lymphocytes which ...