Is fish intake safe from mercury toxicity?
Both genetic and environmental factors are known to cause a decline of the immune system during aging (1). Attempts to prevent the loss of genome integrity and damage to cellular DNA in immune cells during aging are of vital importance. With age, cumulative damage caused by both exogenous and endogenous agents such as increased air pollution, UV or ionizing radiation and reactive oxygen species generated by respiration could further increase the damage to DNA resulting in impairment of immune function. Loss of various immunological functions in the elderly includes both changes in innate (rapid) and adaptive (delayed) immune responses which are regulated closely by various lymphocyte subsets. With age, the loss of T cell function, particularly changes in the nave/memory T-cell ratio, occurs earlier than the loss of B cell function which causes an imbalance in Th-1 (IL-2, IFN-g) and Th-2 (IL-4, IL-6, IL-10) cytokines (2). These changes may promote either organ-specific or systemic infla
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