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    Antibody diversity decreases with age

    • Last Update: 2022-04-23
    • Source: Internet
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    Our immune systems work less and less as we age


    The immune system must constantly respond to new attacks from pathogens and remember them in order to be protected from the next infection


    "We wanted to know the antibody repertoire of the elderly," explained Dario Ricardo Valenzano, who led the study


    Killifish are the shortest-lived vertebrates that can be preserved in the laboratory


    less antibody diversity

    The researchers were able to characterize all the antibodies produced by the killifish with a high degree of accuracy


    "If different antibodies decrease with age, this could lead to a decrease in the ability to respond to infection


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