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Immunosenescence in aging: between immune cells depletion and cytokines up-regulation

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical and Molecular Allergy, December 2017
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Title
Immunosenescence in aging: between immune cells depletion and cytokines up-regulation
Published in
Clinical and Molecular Allergy, December 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12948-017-0077-0
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Authors

Maria Teresa Ventura, Marco Casciaro, Sebastiano Gangemi, Rosalba Buquicchio

Abstract

The immunosenescence is a relatively recent chapter, correlated with the linear extension of the average life began in the nineteenth century and still in progress. The most important feature of immunosenescence is the accumulation in the "immunological space" of memory and effector cells as a result of the stimulation caused by repeated clinical and subclinical infections and by continuous exposure to antigens (inhalant allergens, food, etc.). This state of chronic inflammation that characterizes senescence has a significant impact on survival and fragility. In fact, the condition of frail elderly occurs less frequently in situations characterized by poor contact with viral infections and parasitic diseases. Furthermore the immunosenescence is characterized by a particular "remodelling" of the immune system, induced by oxidative stress. Apoptosis plays a central role in old age, a period in which the ability of apoptosis can change. The remodelling of apoptosis, together with the Inflammaging and the up-regulation of the immune response with the consequent secretion of pro-inflammatory lymphokines represents the major determinant of the rate of aging and longevity, as well as of the most common diseases related with age and with tumors. Other changes occur in the innate immunity, the first line of defence providing rapid, but unspecific and incomplete protection, consisting mostly of monocytes, natural killer cells and dendritic cells, acting up to the establishment of a adaptive immune response, which is slower, but highly specific, which cellular substrate consists of T and B lymphocytes. The markers of "Inflammaging" in adaptive immunity in centenarians are characterized by a decrease in T cells "naive." The reduction of CD8 virgins may be related to the risk of morbidity and death, as well as the combination of the increase of CD8+ cells and reduction of CD4+ T cells and the reduction of CD19+ B cells. The immune function of the elderly is weakened to due to the exhaustion of T cell-virgin (CD95-), which are replaced with the clonal expansion of CD28-T cells. The increase of pro-inflammatory cytokines is associated with dementia, Parkinson's disease, atherosclerosis, diabetes type 2, sarcopenia and a high risk of morbidity and mortality. A correct modulation of immune responses and apoptotic phenomena can be useful to reduce age-related degenerative diseases, as well as inflammatory and neoplastic diseases.

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Unknown 431 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 61 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 57 13%
Researcher 50 12%
Student > Master 48 11%
Other 25 6%
Other 68 16%
Unknown 122 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 81 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 67 16%
Immunology and Microbiology 41 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 25 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 19 4%
Other 55 13%
Unknown 143 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 30. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 September 2023.
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