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  • Title: Effect of age on the human high affinity interleukin 2 receptor of phytohaemagglutinin stimulated peripheral blood lymphocytes.
    Author: Nagel JE, Chopra RK, Powers DC, Adler WH.
    Journal: Clin Exp Immunol; 1989 Feb; 75(2):286-91. PubMed ID: 2784739.
    Abstract:
    High affinity interleukin 2 receptors (HA-IL-2R) on mitogen- or antigen-stimulated T cells have been shown to efficiently bind interleukin 2 (IL-2) and to transduce the activation signal(s) that facilitate proliferation. This study was initiated to determine whether the impaired proliferative response of T cells from elderly individuals can be attributed to the defective expression of HA-IL-2R. While cells from both young and old individuals had statistically insignificant differences in the number of HA-IL-2R per membrane IL-2R-positive cell and these receptors displayed similar binding affinities with 125I-IL-2, there were consistently fewer cells and fewer cells expressing HA-IL-2R in the cell cultures from elderly individuals. The magnitude of the age-associated impairment in cell proliferation was decreased, but remained present, when Percoll fractionated lymphoblasts, as compared to peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL), were cultured in the presence of exogenous interleukin 2 (IL-2). The results demonstrate that a significantly larger percentage of lymphocytes from elderly individuals do not respond to mitogenic stimulation and, probably due to stimulus stress, die in culture. As a consequence there are fewer functionally competent cells expressing the HA-IL-2R in cultures from elderly individuals, which in turn contributes to the age-related defect in the lymphocyte proliferative response.
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