Aging is characterized by a progressive deterioration of physiological integrity, leading to
impaired functional ability and ultimately increased susceptibility to death. It is a major risk …

Short telomeres confer risk of degenerative diseases. Chronic psychological stress can lead
to disease through many pathways, and research from in vitro studies to human longitudinal …

Long COVID has become a world-wide, non-communicable epidemic, caused by long-
lasting multiorgan symptoms that endure for weeks or months after SARS-CoV-2 infection …

The clinical course and outcome of COVID-19 are highly variable, ranging from
asymptomatic infections to severe disease and death. Understanding the risk factors of …

Several traditional observational studies suggested an association between COVID‐19 and
leukocyte telomere length (LTL), a biomarker for biological age. However, whether there …

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has resulted in a global pandemic associated with substantial …

The SARS-CoV-2 infection determines the COVID-19 syndrome characterized, in the worst
cases, by severe respiratory distress, pulmonary and cardiac fibrosis, inflammatory cytokine …

Cellular senescence is an irreversible cell arrest process, which is determined by a variety of
complicated mechanisms, including telomere attrition, mitochondrial dysfunction, metabolic …

CD8+ T lymphocytes are a heterogeneous class of cells that play a crucial role in the
adaptive immune response against pathogens and cancer. During their lifetime, they …

Current understanding of the complex pathogenesis of COVID-19 interstitial pneumonia
pathogenesis in the light of biopsies carried out in early/moderate phase and histology data …