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Rita B. Effros is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their primary research focuses on immunology and microbiology, with related work in medicine. The scientist's research encompasses key topics in immune cell function and interaction, cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research, and T-cell and B-cell immunology.

Their published work includes a scholarly article titled Reflections from Peter's First Graduate Student, published in 2020 in the journal Viral Immunology. This publication marks their contribution to the field of viral immunology and adds to the body of research related to virus-host interactions and immune responses.

  • Immunology and Microbiology
  • Medicine

  • Immunology
  • Epidemiology

  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology

  • Reflections from Peter's First Graduate Student (2020), Viral Immunology

  • Viral Immunology

Best Publications

  • Chronic inflammation in the etiology of disease across the life span

    David Furman;Judith Campisi;Judith Campisi;Eric Verdin;Pedro Carrera-Bastos

  • Loss of telomeric DNA during aging of normal and trisomy 21 human lymphocytes

    H. Vaziri;F. Schächter;I. Uchida;Lan Wei

  • Workshop on HIV Infection and Aging: What Is Known and Future Research Directions

    Rita B. Effros;Courtney V. Fletcher;Kelly Gebo;Jeffrey B. Halter

  • HIV and aging: State of knowledge and areas of critical need for research. a report to the NIH office of AIDS research by the HIV and aging working group

    Kevin P. High;Mark Brennan-Ing;David B. Clifford;Mardge H. Cohen

  • Telomere shortening in T cells correlates with Alzheimer’s disease status

    L. A. Panossian;V. R. Porter;H. F. Valenzuela;X. Zhu

  • Decline in CD28+ T cells in centenarians and in long-term T cell cultures: A possible cause for both in vivo and in vitro immunosenescence

    Rita B. Effros;Nathalie Boucher;Verna Porter;Xiaoming Zhu

  • Shortened telomeres in the expanded Cd28-cd8+ cell subset in Hiv disease implicate replicative senescence in Hiv pathogenesis

    Rita B. Effros;Richard Allsopp;Choy-pik Chiu;Mary Ann Hausner

  • The role of CD8+ T-cell replicative senescence in human aging.

    Rita B. Effros;Mirabelle Dagarag;Carolyn Spaulding;Janice Man

  • Reduced telomerase activity in human T lymphocytes exposed to cortisol.

    Jenny Choi;Steven R. Fauce;Rita B. Effros

  • Ageing of lymphocytes and lymphocytes in the aged.

    Amiela Globerson;Rita B Effros

  • Immunosenescence: what does it mean to health outcomes in older adults?

    Janet E McElhaney;Rita B Effros

  • Replicative senescence of T cells: does the Hayflick Limit lead to immune exhaustion?

    Rita B. Effros;Graham Pawelec

  • T Cell Replicative Senescence in Human Aging

    Jennifer P. Chou;Rita B. Effros

  • MECHANISM OF TELOMERASE INDUCTION DURING T CELL ACTIVATION

    Andrea G. Bodnar;Nam W. Kim;Rita B. Effros;Choy-Pik Chiu

  • Is immunosenescence infectious

    Graham Pawelec;Arne Akbar;Calogero Caruso;Rita Effros

  • Resistance to apoptosis in human CD8+ T cells that reach replicative senescence after multiple rounds of antigen-specific proliferation.

    Carolyn Spaulding;Wei Guo;Rita B Effros

  • Divergent telomerase and CD28 expression patterns in human CD4 and CD8 T cells following repeated encounters with the same antigenic stimulus.

    Hector F Valenzuela;Rita B Effros

  • Generation of both cross-reactive and virus-specific T-cell populations after immunization with serologically distinct influenza A viruses.

    Rita B. Effros;Peter C. Doherty;Walter Gerhard;Jack Bennink

  • Calorie restriction inhibits the age-related dysregulation of the cytokines TNF-α and IL-6 in C3B10RF1 mice

    Carolyn C Spaulding;Roy L Walford;Rita B Effros

  • Vaccination in the elderly: an immunological perspective

    Wilbur H. Chen;Bernard F. Kozlovsky;Rita B. Effros;Beatrix Grubeck-Loebenstein

  • The role of CD8 T cell replicative senescence in human aging.

    Rita B Effros

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter C. Doherty
Peter C. Doherty University of Melbourne
Graham Pawelec
Graham Pawelec University of Tübingen
Otto O. Yang
Otto O. Yang University of California, Los Angeles
Beth D. Jamieson
Beth D. Jamieson University of California, Los Angeles
Calvin B. Harley
Calvin B. Harley Geron (United States)
Beatrix Grubeck-Loebenstein
Beatrix Grubeck-Loebenstein University of Innsbruck
Benjamin Bonavida
Benjamin Bonavida University of California, Los Angeles
Walter Gerhard
Walter Gerhard The Wistar Institute
Arne N. Akbar
Arne N. Akbar University College London
Richard Aspinall
Richard Aspinall Coventry University

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