{"title":"Deficient repair of UV-induced DNA damage in immature human T cells.","authors":"M Hartwig","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As compared with quiescent lymphocytes, human thymocytes were found in the nucleoid sedimentation assay to be deficient in UV-induced DNA repair. Therefore, the age-related repair deficiency of human lymphocytes can result from the increased proportion of immature T cells occurring with age.</p>","PeriodicalId":76845,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie","volume":"27 5","pages":"330-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1994-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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As compared with quiescent lymphocytes, human thymocytes were found in the nucleoid sedimentation assay to be deficient in UV-induced DNA repair. Therefore, the age-related repair deficiency of human lymphocytes can result from the increased proportion of immature T cells occurring with age.