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Suppressing an Anti-Inflammatory Cytokine Reveals a Strong Age-Dependent Survival Cost in Mice

BACKGROUND: The central paradigm of ecological immunology postulates that selection acts on immunity as to minimize its cost/benefit ratio. Costs of immunity may arise because the energetic requirements of the immune response divert resources that are no longer available for other vital functions. I...

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Autores principales: Belloni, Virginia, Faivre, Bruno, Guerreiro, Romain, Arnoux, Emilie, Bellenger, Jérôme, Sorci, Gabriele
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2944877/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20886083
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012940