From: Zinc deficiency as possible link between immunosenescence and age-related diseases
Cell type | Characteristics | Alteration | References | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Elderly | ZD | Elderly | ZD | ||
Neutrophil granulocytes | |||||
Cell Number | ↗ | ↗ | [171] ↔ | ||
NLR | ↑ | ↑ | [123] ↑ | [129] ↑ | |
Apoptosis | ↑ | ↗ | [136] ↘ | ||
Oxidative Burst | ↓ | ↔ | [150] ↓↑ | ||
Chemotaxis | ↓ | ↓ | |||
Phagocytosis | ↓ | ↓ | [12] ↓ [163] ↘ | ||
NETosis | ↓ | ↓ | |||
Basophil granulocytes | |||||
Cell Number | ↓ | ↑ | [175] ↓ | ||
Cell Number (tissue resident) | ↑ | - | [176] ↑ | - | |
Eosinophil granulocytes | |||||
Cell Number | ↓ | ↗ | [168] ↓ | [177] ↓ | |
Cell number (tissue resident) | ↔ | ↑ | [180] ↑ |