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. 2012 Sep 19;3(5):404–413.

Figure 3.

Figure 3.

Conccurrent decline of the capacities for phagocytosis and flexible immune recognition in myeloid phagocytes during aging. The myeloid machinery for flexible immune recognition is based on the recently identified recombinatorial TCRL. This process is paralleled by the decline of the T cell receptor (TCR) in the lymphoid lineage.