the elucidation of age-related changes in immune functions is of great importance in light of the rising susceptibility of elderly individuals to infections , the likelihood that immunosenescence might also contribute to the age-related rise in cancer , and the role autoantibodies and immune complexes might play in general physical deterioration of aging individuals through their participation in subclinical chronic tissue damage .
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immune functions
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autoantibodies