Immune Function in Healthy Adolescents

Overview

Journal Clin Diagn Lab Immunol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Allergy & Immunology

Date 1998 Feb 10

PMID 9455890

Citations 17

Authors

J A Bartlett

S J Schleifer

M K Demetrikopoulos

B R Delaney

S C Shiflett

S E Keller

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Abstract

In the present study, we examine immunological functioning in normal healthy African-American and Latino/Latina adolescents recruited from an inner-city high school and an inner-city clinic. A battery of tests was performed with enumerative and functional measures which encompassed both innate and adaptive immunity. We found immune differences related to age, gender, and race on both the enumerative and the functional immune measures. This data expands the available body of information concerning normal immunity in healthy adolescents.

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