Irene Maeve Rea

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Genetics of Healthy Aging in Europe: The EU-Integrated Project GEHA (GEnetics of Healthy Aging)
    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1100, no. 1, pp. 21–45, 2007
  2. Functional promoter region polymorphism of the proinflammatory chemokine IL-8 gene associates with Parkinson's disease in the Irish
    Human Immunology, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 340–346, 2004
  3. Investigation of KIR diversity in immunosenecence and longevity within the Irish population
    Experimental Gerontology, vol. 39, no. 8, pp. 1223–1232, 2004
  4. Hypothetical soluble KIR2DS4 natural killer cell receptor molecule does not associate with successful ageing in the Irish
    Experimental Gerontology, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 801–805, 2004
  5. Ageing in the 21st Century. Where to and how will we get there? Report on the 10th congress of the international association of biomedical gerontology, the geriatrician's view
    Experimental Gerontology, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 283–284, 2004
  6. Paraoxonase polymorphisms PON1 192 and 55 and longevity in Italian centenarians and Irish nonagenarians. A pooled analysis
    Experimental Gerontology, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 629–635, 2004
  7. Malondialdehyde and Measures of Antioxidant Activity in Subjects from the Belfast Elderly Longitudinal Free-Living Aging Study
    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1019, no. 1, pp. 392–395, 2004
  8. HLA haplotypes and TNF polymorphism do not associate with longevity in the Irish
    Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, vol. 124, no. 4, pp. 563–567, 2003
  9. Interleukin-6-gene C/G 174 polymorphism in nonagenarian and octogenarian subjects in the BELFAST study. Reciprocal effects on IL-6, soluble IL-6 receptor and for IL-10 in serum and monocyte supernatants
    Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, vol. 124, no. 4, pp. 555–561, 2003
  10. Study of age-association with cytokine gene polymorphisms in an aged Irish population
    Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, vol. 124, no. 2, pp. 199–206, 2003
  11. Increased frequency of the 2437T allele of the heat shock protein 70-Hom gene in an aged Irish population
    Experimental Gerontology, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 561–565, 2003
  12. mt4216C variant in linkage with the mtDNA TJ cluster may confer a susceptibility to mitochondrial dysfunction resulting in an increased risk of Parkinson's disease in the Irish
    Experimental Gerontology, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 397–405, 2003
  13. A novel polymorphic triplet repeat in intron five of the ??-synuclein gene: no evidence of expansion or allelic association with idiopathic Parkinson??s disease in the Irish
    NeuroReport, vol. 13, no. 13, pp. 1621–1625, 2002
  14. A whole blood method for measurement of intracellular TNF-a, IFN-? and IL-2 expression in stimulated CD3+ lymphocytes: differences between young and elderly subjects
    Experimental Gerontology, vol. 37, no. 2-3, pp. 227–234, 2002
  15. Age-Related Alterations in Basal Expression and in vitro, Tumour Necrosis Factor Alpha Mediated, Upregulation of CD11b
    Gerontology, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 180–185, 2001
  16. Apolipoprotein E alleles in nonagenarian subjects in the Belfast Elderly Longitudinal Free-living Ageing Study (BELFAST)
    Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, vol. 122, no. 13, pp. 1367–1372, 2001
  17. Serum heat shock protein and anti-heat shock protein antibody levels in aging
    Experimental Gerontology, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 341–352, 2001
  18. TOTAL SERUM IL-12 AND IL-12p40, BUT NOT IL-12p70, ARE INCREASED IN THE SERUM OF OLDER SUBJECTS; RELATIONSHIP TO CD3+AND NK SUBSETS
    Cytokine, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 156–159, 2000
  19. Flow cytometry analysis of platelet P-selectin expression in whole blood - methodological considerations
    Clinical and Laboratory Haematology, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 359–363, 2000
  20. Community-living nonagenarians in Northern Ireland have lower plasma homocysteine but similar methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase thermolabile genotype prevalence compared to 70–89-year-old subjects
    Atherosclerosis, vol. 149, no. 1, pp. 207–214, 2000
  21. CD69, CD25, and HLA-DR activation antigen expression on CD3+ lymphocytes and relationship to serum TNF-a, IFN-?, and sIL-2R levels in aging
    Experimental Gerontology, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 79–93, 1999
  22. Age-related reference intervals for lymphocyte subsets in whole blood of healthy individuals
    Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 89–92, 1999
  23. Journal of Clinical Immunology, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 31–38, 1998
  24. MTHFR thermolabile genotype frequencies and longevity in Northern Ireland
    Atherosclerosis, vol. 131, no. 1, pp. 137–138, 1997
  25. Age-related changes in non-receptor dependent generation of reactive oxygen species from phagocytes of healthy adults
    Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, vol. 94, no. 1-3, pp. 135–144, 1997
  26. 163. Alterations in blood coagulation in older age groups
    Fibrinolysis, vol. 10, pp. 51–51, 1996
  27. CD4 lymphopenia in elderly patients
    The Lancet, vol. 347, no. 9005, pp. 911–912, 1996
  28. Sex and age changes in serum zinc levels
    Nutrition Research, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 121–125, 1989