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Eliminating Senescent Cells by Activating the Immune System (Robin Mansukhani, Deciduous Therapeutics)

Translating Aging

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The Effects of Age on NKT Cell Populations

The number of NKT cells stay relatively constant in the body as we age or does it go down in older organisms? Yeah, it hasn't been properly surveyed. We do see in the serum that there's a slight decline. What's actually interesting about the question you're asking is, we see the same thing in disease. So even in mice that have disease that are young, they have suppressed levels of N KT cells,. Even at a young age, in the presence of disease.

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