Aging of the immune system: research challenges to enhance the health span of older adults

L Haynes - Frontiers in aging, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The world's population is aging, which brings about huge scientific challenges. Since the
biological process of aging is by far the greatest risk factor for most chronic diseases …

Intracellular signalling pathways: targets to reverse immunosenescence

T Fulop, JM Witkowski, A Le Page… - Clinical & …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Ageing is a very complex process, the result of the dysregulation of multiple systems
interacting in many ways. A prominent change occurring with ageing is related to the …

cGAS/STING: novel perspectives of the classic pathway

M Gao, Y He, H Tang, X Chen, S Liu, Y Tao - Molecular Biomedicine, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP) synthase (cGAS) is a cytosolic DNA sensor and innate
immune response initiator. Binding with exogenous or endogenous nucleic acids, cGAS …

How the innate immune DNA sensing cGAS-STING pathway is involved in apoptosis

W Zheng, A Liu, N Xia, N Chen, F Meurens… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The cGAS–STING signaling axis can be activated by cytosolic DNA, including both non-self
DNA and self DNA. This axis is used by the innate immune system to monitor invading …

Interplay of cGAS with chromatin

M Wischnewski, A Ablasser - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2021 - cell.com
Recognition of DNA is an evolutionarily highly conserved mechanism of immunity. In
mammals, the cGAS-STING pathway plays a central role in coupling DNA sensing to the …

Inflammaging, an imbalanced immune response that needs to be restored for cancer prevention and treatment in the elderly

J Serrano-López, B Martín-Antonio - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, new advances in society and health have brought an increased life expectancy.
However, at the same time, aging comes with complications that impact the development of …

[HTML][HTML] Cellular senescence and inflammaging in age-related diseases

F Olivieri, F Prattichizzo, J Grillari… - Mediators of …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The term cellular senescence was used in 1961 for the first time by Hayflick and Moorhead
[1], to define the mechanism determining the irreversible loss of the proliferative activity of …

Beyond DNA sensing: expanding the role of cGAS/STING in immunity and diseases

JK Seok, M Kim, HC Kang, YY Cho, HS Lee… - Archives of Pharmacal …, 2023 - Springer
Cyclic guanosine monophosphate-adenosine monophosphate (cGAMP) synthase (cGAS) is
a DNA sensor that elicits a robust type I interferon response by recognizing ubiquitous …

Cellular signaling in the aging immune system

T Fulop, A Le Page, C Fortin, JM Witkowski… - Current opinion in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•There is a general signal transduction alteration in immune cells with human
aging.•The most important changes occur at the proximal signaling of TCR.•Not only the …

Aging and chronic inflammation: highlights from a multidisciplinary workshop

D Saavedra, AL Añé-Kourí, N Barzilai, C Caruso… - Immunity & …, 2023 - Springer
Aging is a gradual, continuous series of natural changes in biological, physiological,
immunological, environmental, psychological, behavioral, and social processes. Aging …