Immunity & Ageing | Full text | Ageing and the immune... -
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Published on: 12/1/2004
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Richard Aspinall
Dept of Immunology, Imperial College London, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital London, 369 Fulham Road, London.SW10 9NH, UK
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This theme of improved immunity following reversal of thymic atrophy was carried further in work reported by Dr Richard Aspinall (Imperial College, London).He showed how therapeutic intervention with interleukin 7 and derivates could reverse atrophy of the thymus in old animals and also lead to improved immune function compared with age and sex matched controls.In addition he described work done in the Gambia which suggested a link between the development and enlargement of the thymus after birth and the level of interleukin 7 in breast milk.