Viral Immunology
“Back then, I wasn’t ill so often”: With advancing age not only the skin loses its elasticity – many organs lose their functions. So does the immune system: Defense cells do not react promptly anymore, and immunological memory is not established. As a result, we are poorly protected by vaccines and more susceptible to infections, but at the same time suffer from inflammatory disease. While the mechanisms of immune aging remain unknown, chronic viral infections are environmental factors that may accelerate the age-related changes of the immune system. Read more about how pathogens may have an impact on the real age of our immune system.
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Finished Projects
- Viral Strategies of Immune Evasion: VISTRIE
- Molecular mechanisms of persistent antigenic stimulation in cytomegalovirus infection: CYTOMEGALOVIRUS
- IFN-mediated control of chronic CMV infection: MCMV-INFECTION
- Chronic Infections: Microbial Persistence and how to control it: CRC900
- Early Determinants of DNA Virus Lytic or Latent Infection
- Interferons in Herpesviral Latency: SFB900 PROJECT B2
- TTU Infection of the Immuno-compromised Host
- Viral Vaccine Vector: VIVAVE
- New Cytomegaloviral Vaccine Vector Concepts
- Immune mediators of cytomegalovirus latency
- Role of NFAT signaling in memory inflation and T cell-mediated immune protection against CMV
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