George A. Kuchel

CMV-specific clonal expansion in human Th1 and GZMK⁺ CD8⁺ T cells

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common herpesvirus that establishes lifelong latency and becomes increasingly prevalent with age. To systematically delineate CMV-associated immune remodeling at single-cell resolution, we analysed six human cohorts (including two newly established coho...

Red Blood Cell Distribution Width Is Associated With Functional Outcomes Following Surgery for Hip Fracture

BACKGROUND: Elevated red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is increasingly found to be associated with adverse health outcomes in older adults. We leveraged a randomized clinical trial that was investigating responses to supervised exercise (EX) with or without a topical testos...