The twilight of immunity: emerging concepts in aging of the immune system

J Nikolich-Žugich - Nature immunology, 2018 - nature.com
Immunosenescence is a series of age-related changes that affect the immune system and,
with time, lead to increased vulnerability to infectious diseases. This Review addresses …

Regulation of innate and adaptive immunity by TGFβ

A Kelly, SA Houston, E Sherwood, J Casulli… - Advances in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Immune regulation by cytokines is crucial in maintaining immune homeostasis, promoting
responses to infection, resolving inflammation, and promoting immunological memory …

Blimp-1–mediated CD4 T cell exhaustion causes CD8 T cell dysfunction during chronic toxoplasmosis

SJ Hwang, DA Cobb, R Bhadra… - Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - rupress.org
CD8, but not CD4, T cells are considered critical for control of chronic toxoplasmosis.
Although CD8 exhaustion has been previously reported in Toxoplasma encephalitis (TE) …

Innate and adaptive immune responses against microsporidia infection in mammals

Y Han, H Gao, J Xu, J Luo, B Han, J Bao… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Microsporidia are obligate intracellular and eukaryotic pathogens that can infect
immunocompromised and immunocompetent mammals, including humans. Both innate and …

Identification of neutrophil-derived proteases and angiotensin II as biomarkers of cancer cachexia

CA Penafuerte, B Gagnon, J Sirois, J Murphy… - British journal of …, 2016 - nature.com
Background: Cachexia is a metabolic disorder characterised by muscle wasting, diminished
response to anti-cancer treatments and poor quality of life. Our objective was to identify …

Prognostic factors and survival outcome in patients with chordoma in the United States: a population-based analysis

IJ Lee, RJ Lee, DK Fahim - World neurosurgery, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective To evaluate prognostic factors of patients with chordoma through a population-
based analysis. Methods Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database …

Dysregulated TGF-β production underlies the age-related vulnerability to chikungunya virus

JL Uhrlaub, V Pulko, VR DeFilippis, R Broeckel… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a re-emerging global pathogen with pandemic potential,
which causes fever, rash and debilitating arthralgia. Older adults over 65 years are …

The aging of the immune system and its implications for transplantation

KE McGovern, SA Sonar, M Watanabe, CP Coplen… - Geroscience, 2023 - Springer
By the last third of life, most mammals, including humans, exhibit a decline in immune cell
numbers, immune organ structure, and immune defense of the organism, commonly known …

[HTML][HTML] Aging and uremia: Is there cellular and molecular crossover?

WE White, MM Yaqoob, SM Harwood - World journal of …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Many observers have noted that the morphological changes that occur in chronic kidney
disease (CKD) patients resemble those seen in the geriatric population, with strikingly …

A systematic investigation into aging related genes in brain and their relationship with Alzheimer's disease

G Meng, X Zhong, H Mei - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Aging, as a complex biological process, is accompanied by the accumulation of functional
loses at different levels, which makes age to be the biggest risk factor to many neurological …