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Erratum to: The effect of aging on the frequency, phenotype and cytokine production of human blood CD4 + CXCR5 + T follicular helper cells: comparison of aged and young subjects

Authors: Maohua Zhou, Ruqiong Zou, Huiquan Gan, Zhimei Liang, Fujun Li, Ting Lin, Yanfei Luo, Xiaoming Cai, Fang He and Erxia Shen

A sustained high fat diet for two years decreases IgM and IL-1 beta in ageing Wistar rats

The immune system undergoes several alterations of innate and adaptive immunity during ageing. The main features of the aged immune system are a reduced diversity of T cell receptors and a reduced activity of ...

Authors: Georg Pongratz, Torsten Lowin, Robert Kob, Roland Buettner, Thomas Bertsch and L. Cornelius Bollheimer

Hormetic effect of rotenone in primary human fibroblasts

Rotenone inhibits the electron transfer from complex I to ubiquinone, in this way interfering with the electron transport chain in mitochondria. This chain of events induces increased levels of intracellular r...

Authors: Shiva Marthandan, Steffen Priebe, Marco Groth, Reinhard Guthke, Matthias Platzer, Peter Hemmerich and Stephan Diekmann

Erratum: Less functional variants of TLR-1/-6/-10 genes are associated with age

Authors: Lutz Hamann, Juozas Kupcinskas, Luis C. Almanza Berrocal, Jurgita Skieceviciene, Andre Franke, Ute Nöthlings and Ralf R. Schumann

Leptin, IL-6, and suPAR reflect distinct inflammatory changes associated with adiposity, lipodystrophy and low muscle mass in HIV-infected patients and controls

HIV-infected patients could exhibit accelerated ageing, since age-associated complications like sarcopenia; increased inflammation; lipodystrophy with loss of subcutaneous adipose tissue and/or gain of viscera...

Authors: Anne Langkilde, Janne Petersen, Jens Henrik Henriksen, Frank Krieger Jensen, Jan Gerstoft, Jesper Eugen-Olsen and Ove Andersen

Effects of ebselen and N-acetyl cysteine on replicative aging of primary human fibroblast strains

Administration of selected concentrations of ebselen and N-acetyl cysteine have been proven to display an antioxidant potential based on their effect on markers of T cell integrity and function in human periph...

Authors: Shiva Marthandan

Less functional variants of TLR-1/-6/-10 genes are associated with age

Determining the prerequisites for healthy aging is a major task in the modern world characterized by a longer lifespan of the individuals. Besides lifestyle and environmental influences genetic factors are inv...

Authors: Lutz Hamann, Juozas Kupcinskas, Luis C. Berrocal Almanza, Jurgita Skieceviciene, Andre Franke, Ute Nöthlings and Ralf R. Schumann

The combined molecular adjuvant CASAC enhances the CD8+ T cell response to a tumor-associated self-antigen in aged, immunosenescent mice

Ineffective induction of T cell mediated immunity in older individuals remains a persistent challenge for vaccine development. Thus, there is a need for more efficient and sophisticated adjuvants that will com...

Authors: Gee Jun Tye, Kyriaki Ioannou, Eunice Amofah, Ruby Quartey-Papafio, Samantha J. Westrop, Pramila Krishnamurthy, Alistair Noble, Phillip M. Harrison, Karin M.L. Gaensler, Linda D. Barber and Farzin Farzaneh

Correlation between CD117+ myeloma plasma cells and hematopoietic progenitor cells in different categories of patients

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a neoplastic disorder of plasma cells interesting mainly the elderly. MM remains an incurable disease, mostly because of the strong interplay between clonal plasma cells (cPCs) and bon...

Authors: Fanny Pojero, Alessandra Casuccio, Francesco Di Bassiano, Francesco Gervasi, Giuseppina Colonna Romano and Calogero Caruso

Association of Toll-like receptor 4 polymorphism with age-dependent systolic blood pressure increase in patients with coronary artery disease

Systolic blood pressure (SBP) increases steadily with age and bears an independent continuous relationship with the incidence of cardiovascular events. Low-grade inflammation is a suspected pathomechanism caus...

Authors: Simon Schneider, Werner Koch, Petra Hoppmann, Romy Ubrich, Stephan Kemmner, Eva Steinlechner, Uwe Heemann, Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz, Adnan Kastrati and Marcus Baumann

The interplay between immune maturation, age, chronic viral infection and environment

The worldwide increase in life expectancy has been associated with an increase in age-related morbidities. The underlying mechanisms resulting in immunosenescence are only incompletely understood. Chronic vira...

Authors: Kristie L Oxford, Myra Grace A dela Pena-Ponce, Kara Jensen, Meghan K Eberhardt, Abigail Spinner, Koen KA Van Rompay, Joseph Rigdon, Katie R Mollan, VV Krishnan, Michael G Hudgens, Peter A Barry and Kristina De Paris

Blood–brain barrier dysfunction developed during normal aging is associated with inflammation and loss of tight junctions but not with leukocyte recruitment

Functional loss of blood–brain barrier (BBB) is suggested to be pivotal to pathogenesis and pathology of vascular-based neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. We recently reported in wild-typ...

Authors: Mina Elahy, Connie Jackaman, John CL Mamo, Virginie Lam, Satvinder S Dhaliwal, Corey Giles, Delia Nelson and Ryusuke Takechi

The immunosenescence-related gene Zizimin2 is associated with early bone marrow B cell development and marginal zone B cell formation

We originally cloned and identified murine Zizimin2 (Ziz2, Dock11) as a guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) for Cdc42 and demonstrated that it activated the formation of filopodia. Since its expression pa...

Authors: Takenori Matsuda, Shougo Yanase, Akinori Takaoka and Mitsuo Maruyama

Hypertension in adult Fabry’s disease: is cardiotrophin-1 a diagnostic biomarker?

Cardiotrophin-1 (CT-1), a cytokine produced by cardiomyocytes and non-cardiomyocytes in conditions of stress, can be used as a biomarker of left ventricular hypertrophy and dysfunction in hypertensive patients...

Authors: Monica Gioia Marazzi, Emanuela Galliera, Elena Vianello, Elena Dozio, Andrea Stella, Guido Tettamanti, Lorenza Tacchini and Massimiliano M Corsi Romanelli

Alzheimer’s disease and infections, where we stand and where we go

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Authors: Roberto Monastero, Calogero Caruso and Sonya Vasto

Depressive symptoms post hip fracture in older adults are associated with phenotypic and functional alterations in T cells

Ageing is accompanied by reduced immunity, termed immunesenescence. The immune system does not act in isolation and is sensitive to both psychological and physical stress. Hip fracture is a common physical str...

Authors: Niharika Arora Duggal, Jane Upton, Anna C Phillips, Peter Hampson and Janet M Lord

Genetically diverse mice are novel and valuable models of age-associated susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Tuberculosis, the disease due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the elderly. Use of mouse models may accelerate insight into the disease and tests of therapies sin...

Authors: David E Harrison, Clinton M Astle, M Khalid Khan Niazi, Samuel Major and Gillian L Beamer

The immune response after fracture trauma is different in old compared to young patients

Despite significant medical progress and improved treatment, surgical procedures of proximal femur fractures in older patients are still associated with a high postoperative complication and mortality rate. Re...

Authors: Helen Vester, Markus S Huber-Lang, Qerim Kida, Alexander Scola, Martijn van Griensven, Florian Gebhard, Andreas K Nüssler and Mario Perl

The 21st century epidemic: infections as inductors of neuro-degeneration associated with Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complex disease resulting in neurodegeneration and cognitive impairment. Investigations on environmental factors implicated in AD are scarce and the etiology of the disease remain...

Authors: Federico Licastro, Ilaria Carbone, Elena Raschi and Elisa Porcellini

Age-related limitations of interleukin-6 in predicting early mortality in acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction

Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is an inflammatory cytokine whose levels increase significantly during myocardial infarction (MI).

Authors: Dominika Kanikowska, Małgorzata Pyda, Katarzyna Korybalska, Stefan Grajek, Maciej Lesiak, Andrzej Bręborowicz and Janusz Witowski

The role of platelet gel in osteoarticular injuries of young and old patients

The use of autologous platelet gel in orthopedics is effective in accelerating the healing process of osteochondral, muscle, tendon and ligament lesions. The aim of our study was to verify whether the variabil...

Authors: Claudia Rizzo, Roberta Vetro, Angelo Vetro, Roberto Mantia, Angelo Iovane, Marco Di Gesù, Sonya Vasto, Laura Di Noto, Giuseppina Mazzola and Calogero Caruso

SENIEUR status of the originating cell donor negates certain ‘anti-immunosenescence’ effects of ebselen and N-acetyl cysteine in human T cell clone cultures

Damage to T cells of the immune system by reactive oxygen species may result in altered cell function or cell death and thereby potentially impact upon the efficacy of a subsequent immune response. Here, we as...

Authors: Shiva Marthandan, Robin Freeburn, Susanne Steinbrecht, Graham Pawelec and Yvonne Barnett

A G613A missense in the Hutchinson’s progeria lamin A/C gene causes a lone, autosomal dominant atrioventricular block

LMNA/C mutations have been linked to the premature aging syndrome Hutchinson’s progeria, dilated cardiomyopathy 1A, skeletal myopathies (such as the autosomal dominant variant of Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy...

Authors: Francesco Villa, Anna Maciąg, Chiara C Spinelli, Anna Ferrario, Albino Carrizzo, Attilio Parisi, Annalaura Torella, Chiara Montenero, Gianluigi Condorelli, Carmine Vecchione, Vincenzo Nigro, Annibale S Montenero and Annibale A Puca

The association between hearing impairment and polymorphisms of genes encoding inflammatory mediators in Japanese aged population

Aging process is accompanied by a chronic sub-clinical systemic inflammation. This study aimed to assess the association between hearing impairment and polymorphisms of genes encoding cytokines deeply-committe...

Authors: Yasue Uchida, Saiko Sugiura, Hiromi Ueda, Tsutomu Nakashima, Fujiko Ando and Hiroshi Shimokata

Possible role of ABO system in age-related diseases and longevity: a narrative review

ABO blood group antigens are expressed either on the surface of red blood cells either on a variety of other cells. Based on the available knowledge of the genes involved in their biosynthesis and their tissue...

Authors: Claudia Rizzo, Calogero Caruso and Sonya Vasto

Characterization of recovery, repair, and inflammatory processes following contusion spinal cord injury in old female rats: is age a limitation?

Although the incidence of spinal cord injury (SCI) is steadily rising in the elderly human population, few studies have investigated the effect of age in rodent models. Here, we investigated the effect of age ...

Authors: Mitra J Hooshmand, Manuel D Galvan, Elizabeth Partida and Aileen J Anderson

Age-related differences in polyfunctional T cell responses

A reduced number of naïve T cells along with an accumulation of differentiated cell types in aging have been described but little is known about the polyfunctionality of the T cell responses. In this study we ...

Authors: Puja Van Epps, Richard Banks, Htin Aung, Michael R Betts and David H Canaday

Bereavement reduces neutrophil oxidative burst only in older adults: role of the HPA axis and immunesenescence

The effect of the chronic stress of bereavement on immunity is poorly understood. Previous studies have demonstrated negative effects on immunity in older adults, and those who report higher depressive symptom...

Authors: Ana Vitlic, Riyad Khanfer, Janet M Lord, Douglas Carroll and Anna C Phillips

The effect of aging on the frequency, phenotype and cytokine production of human blood CD4 + CXCR5 + T follicular helper cells: comparison of aged and young subjects

T cell-dependent B-cell responses decline with age, indicating declined cognate helper activity of aged CD4 + T cells for B cells. However, the mechanisms remain unclear. T follicular helper (Tfh) cells, a nov...

Authors: Maohua Zhou, Ruqiong Zou, Huiquan Gan, Zhimei Liang, Fujun Li, Ting Lin, Yanfei Luo, Xiaoming Cai, Fang He and Erxia Shen

Lipid-laden partially-activated plasmacytoid and CD4⁻CD8α⁺ dendritic cells accumulate in tissues in elderly mice

Aging is associated with a decline in lymphocyte function however, little is known about dendritic cell (DC) subsets and aging. Aging is also associated with increasing circulating lipid levels and intracellul...

Authors: Joanne K Gardner, Cyril DS Mamotte, Terrence McGonigle, Danielle E Dye, Connie Jackaman and Delia J Nelson

Antibody responses to intradermal or intramuscular MF59-adjuvanted influenza vaccines as evaluated in elderly institutionalized volunteers during a season of partial mismatching between vaccine and circulating A(H3N2) strains

The age-related weakening of the immune system makes elderly subjects less responsive to influenza vaccination. In the last years, two “enhanced vaccines” were licensed for individuals aged ≥65 years, one bein...

Authors: Barbara Camilloni, Michela Basileo, Angela Di Martino, Isabella Donatelli and Anna Maria Iorio

Impact of ageing on the response and repertoire of influenza virus-specific CD4 T cells

Ageing has been shown to reduce CD8 T cell repertoire diversity and immune responses against influenza virus infection in mice. In contrast, less is known about the impact of ageing on CD4 T cell repertoire di...

Authors: Kathleen G Lanzer, Lawrence L Johnson, David L Woodland and Marcia A Blackman

Ageing combines CD4 T cell lymphopenia in secondary lymphoid organs and T cell accumulation in gut associated lymphoid tissue

CD4 T cell lymphopenia is an important T cell defect associated to ageing. Higher susceptibility to infections, cancer, or autoimmune pathologies described in aged individuals is thought to partly rely on T ce...

Authors: Kim Zita Martinet, Stéphane Bloquet and Christine Bourgeois

LATEX sensitization in elderly: allergological study and diagnostic protocol

The prevalence of latex allergy varies according to the population studied from 3% to 64%. No data exist in the present literature about elderly people because they were not considered among populations at ris...

Authors: Teresa Grieco, Valentina Faina, Laura Dies, Marzio Milana, Emidio Silvestri and Stefano Calvieri

Mycobacterium leprae Hsp65 administration reduces the lifespan of aged high antibody producer mice

Aging process may result in immune modifications that lead to disruption of innate and acquired immunity mechanisms that may induce chronic-degenerative events. The heat shock proteins (Hsp), phylogeneticaly c...

Authors: Estevam José Baldon, Eliana Blini Marengo, Marcelo de Franco, Nancy Starobinas, Valquiria Bueno and Osvaldo Augusto Sant’Anna

Air pollution and subclinical airway inflammation in the SALIA cohort study

The association between long-term exposure to air pollution and local inflammation in the lung has rarely been investigated in the general population of elderly subjects before. We investigated this associatio...

Authors: Mohammad Vossoughi, Tamara Schikowski, Andrea Vierkötter, Dorothea Sugiri, Barbara Hoffmann, Tom Teichert, Christian Herder, Thomas Schulte, Christian Luckhaus, Monika Raulf-Heimsoth, Swaantje Casjens, Thomas Brüning and Ursula Krämer

Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus infection in aged nonhuman primates is associated with modulated pulmonary and systemic immune responses

Many respiratory viruses disproportionately impact the elderly. Likewise, advanced age correlated with more adverse disease outcomes following severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) infection...

Authors: Candice C Clay, Nathan Donart, Ndingsa Fomukong, Jennifer B Knight, Katie Overheim, Jennifer Tipper, Jesse Van Westrienen, Fletcher Hahn and Kevin S Harrod

Ageing gender-specific "Biomarkers of Homeostasis", to protect ourselves against the diseases of the old age

Low-grade inflammatory state causes the development of the principal chronic-degenerative pathologies related with ageing. Consequently, it is required a better comprehension of the physiologic origins and the...

Authors: Anna Maria Berghella, Ida Contasta, Giuseppe Marulli, Carlo D’Innocenzo, Ferdinando Garofalo, Francesca Gizzi, Marco Bartolomucci, Giacomo Laglia, Marisa Valeri, Mario Gizzi, Mauro Friscioni, Mario Barone, Tiziana Del Beato, Enzo Secinaro and Patrizia Pellegrini

Molecular mechanisms associated with the strength of the anti-CMV response in nonagenarians

Infection with human cytomegalovirus (CMV) affects the function and composition of the immune system during ageing. In addition to the presence of the pathogen, the strength of the immune response, as measured...

Authors: Saara Marttila, Juulia Jylhävä, Laura Kananen, Antti Hervonen, Marja Jylhä and Mikko Hurme

CpG sites associated with NRP1, NRXN2 and miR-29b-2 are hypomethylated in monocytes during ageing

Ageing affects many components of the immune system, including innate immune cells like monocytes. They are important in the early response to pathogens and for their role to differentiate into macrophages and...

Authors: Liina Tserel, Maia Limbach, Mario Saare, Kai Kisand, Andres Metspalu, Lili Milani and Pärt Peterson

Association of a common TLR-6 polymorphism with coronary artery disease – implications for healthy ageing?

The pro-inflammatory status of the elderly triggers most of the age-related diseases such as cancer and atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis, the leading cause world wide of morbidity and death, is an inflammatory...

Authors: Lutz Hamann, Alexander Koch, Saubashya Sur, Nadja Hoefer, Christiane Glaeser, Susanne Schulz, Michael Gross, Andre Franke, Ute Nöthlings, Kai Zacharowski and Ralf R Schumann

Age and menopause affect the expression of specific cytokines/chemokines in plasma and cervical lavage samples from female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya

Aging of the immune system, known as immunosenescence, is associated with profound changes in both innate and adaptive immune responses, resulting in increased susceptibility to infection and a decreased abili...

Authors: Aida Sivro, Julie Lajoie, Joshua Kimani, Walter Jaoko, Francis A Plummer, Keith Fowke and T Blake Ball

Cellular stress response, sirtuins and UCP proteins in Alzheimer disease: role of vitagenes

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting up to one third of individuals reaching the age of 80. Different integrated responses exist in the brain to detect oxidative stress which is c...

Authors: Carolin Cornelius, Angela Trovato Salinaro, Maria Scuto, Vincenzo Fronte, Maria Teresa Cambria, Manuela Pennisi, Rita Bella, Pietro Milone, Antonio Graziano, Rosalia Crupi, Salvatore Cuzzocrea, Giovanni Pennisi and Vittorio Calabrese

Erratum to: Early dysregulation of the memory CD8⁺T cell repertoire leads to compromised immune responses to secondary viral infection in the aged

Authors: Lisa M Connor, Jacob E Kohlmeier, Lynn Ryan, Alan D Roberts, Tres Cookenham, Adam Quinn, Marcia A Blackman and David L Woodland

Variations in inflammatory genes are associated with periodontitis

Periodontitis is a multi-factorial disease and several risk-factors such as infections, inflammatory responses, oral hygiene, smoke, aging and individual predisposition are involved in the disease. Pathogens t...

Authors: Manuela Ianni, Giacomo Bruzzesi, Davide Pugliese, Elisa Porcellini, Ilaria Carbone, Antonio Schiavone and Federico Licastro

Does aging affect the immune status? A comparative analysis in 300 healthy volunteers from France, Austria and Spain

As the European population is getting older, there is growing need in scientific data on how to achieve healthy and successful aging. A decline in immune function with age is unanimously supported by many epid...

Authors: Marie-Paule Vasson, Marie-Chantal Farges, Nicolas Goncalves-Mendes, Jérémie Talvas, Josep Ribalta, Brigitte Winklhofer-Roob, Edmond Rock and Adrien Rossary

Telomere length dynamics in human memory T cells specific for viruses causing acute or latent infections

Declining telomere length (TL) is associated with T cell senescence. While TL in naïve and memory T cells declines with increasing age, there is limited data on TL dynamics in virus-specific memory CD4⁺ T cells i...

Authors: Joel M O'Bryan, Marcia Woda, Mary Co, Anuja Mathew and Alan L Rothman

Impaired specific CD8 T cell response with aging is not due to decreased expression of CD90 on TCR transgenic T cells

CD90 (Thy-1) is a small glycoprotein that is particularly abundant on the surface of mouse thymocytes and peripheral T cells, and is often used as a marker in adoptive transfer experiments to distinguish donor...

Authors: Jiu Jiang, Erin Fisher and Donna M Murasko

Killer Immunoglobulin-like Receptors (KIR) haplogroups A and B track with Natural Killer Cells and Cytokine Profile in Aged Subjects: Observations from Octo/Nonagenarians in the Belfast Elderly Longitudinal Free-living Aging STudy (BELFAST)

Natural Killer Cells (NK) play an important role in detection and elimination of virus-infected, damaged or cancer cells. NK cell function is guided by expression of Killer Immunoglobulin-like Receptors (KIRs)...

Authors: Irene Maeve Rea, Lynn D Maxwell, Susan E McNerlan, H Denis Alexander, Martin D Curran, Derek Middleton and Owen A Ross

Dose response kinetics of CD8 lymphocytes from young animals transfused into old animals and challenged with influenza

Transfusion of autologous leukocytes after prolonged storage has been proposed as a means of rejuvenating the immune system of older individuals. The rationale for this approach is that age related immune decl...

Authors: Richard Aspinall, Sheila Govind, Antonio Lapenna and Pierre Olivier Lang