Vaccination as a preventative measure contributing to immune fitness

B Laupèze, G Del Giudice, MT Doherty, R Van der Most - npj Vaccines, 2021 - nature.com
The primary goal of vaccination is the prevention of pathogen-specific infection. The indirect
consequences may include maintenance of homeostasis through prevention of infection …

Is early life adversity a trigger towards inflammageing?

MP Merz, JD Turner - Experimental Gerontology, 2021 - Elsevier
There are many 'faces' of early life adversity (ELA), such as childhood trauma,
institutionalisation, abuse or exposure to environmental toxins. These have been implicated …

Estimage: a webserver hub for the computation of methylation age

P Di Lena, C Sala, C Nardini - Nucleic Acids Research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Methylage is an epigenetic marker of biological age that exploits the correlation between the
methylation state of specific CG dinucleotides (CpGs) and chronological age (in years) …

Chromatin alterations in the aging lung change progenitor cell activity

SP Rowbotham, P Pessina, CG de Alba Rivas, J Li… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
The lung contains multiple progenitor cell types that respond to damage, but how their
responses are choreographed and why they decline with age is poorly understood. We …

Differences in Cortical Thickness Between Cognitively Impaired Persons With and Without Apathy May Reflect Discrete Mechanisms of Neuropathophysiology

NK Chan - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Apathy increases the risk of dementia and is associated with worse outcomes. Deficits in
frontostriatal circuits and frontotemporal association areas are associated with apathy in …