Down syndrome, accelerated aging and immunosenescence

N Gensous, MG Bacalini, C Franceschi… - Seminars in …, 2020 - Springer
Down syndrome is the most common chromosomal disorder, associated with moderate to
severe intellectual disability. While life expectancy of Down syndrome population has greatly …

Rebalancing the unbalanced aged immune system–A special focus on zinc

BR Baarz, L Rink - Ageing research reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Nowadays, aging is understood as a dynamic and multifaceted dysregulation process that
spares almost no human organ or cell. The immune system being among the most affected …

Thymic epithelium abnormalities in DiGeorge and Down syndrome patients contribute to dysregulation in T cell development

GE Marcovecchio, I Bortolomai, F Ferrua… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The thymus plays a fundamental role in establishing and maintaining central and peripheral
tolerance and defects in thymic architecture or AIRE expression result in the development of …

Inborn errors of adaptive immunity in Down syndrome

RHJ Verstegen, MAA Kusters - Journal of Clinical Immunology, 2020 - Springer
Down syndrome fits an immunophenotype of combined immunodeficiency with
immunodysregulation, manifesting with increased susceptibility to infections, autoimmunity …

Premature senescence and increased oxidative stress in the thymus of down syndrome patients

GE Marcovecchio, F Ferrua, E Fontana… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Down syndrome (DS) patients prematurely show clinical manifestations usually associated
with aging. Their immune system declines earlier than healthy individuals, leading to …

Differential expression of inflammation‐related genes in children with Down syndrome

CRS Silva, JM Biselli-Périco, BL Zampieri… - Mediators of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. The aim of the study was to investigate the expression patterns of a specific set of
genes involved in the inflammation process in children with Down Syndrome (DS) and …

[HTML][HTML] Modular transcriptional repertoire and MicroRNA target analyses characterize genomic dysregulation in the thymus of Down syndrome infants

CA Moreira-Filho, SY Bando, FB Bertonha, FN Silva… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Trisomy 21-driven transcriptional alterations in human thymus were characterized through
gene coexpression network (GCN) and miRNA-target analyses. We used whole thymic …

[HTML][HTML] Oxidant production and SOD1 protein expression in single skeletal myofibers from Down syndrome mice

PM Cowley, DR Nair, LR DeRuisseau, S Keslacy… - Redox biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Down syndrome (DS) is a genetic condition caused by the triplication of chromosome 21.
Persons with DS exhibit pronounced muscle weakness, which also occurs in the Ts65Dn …

Rodent Modeling of Alzheimer's Disease in Down Syndrome: In vivo and ex vivo Approaches

C Farrell, P Mumford, FK Wiseman - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
There are an estimated 6 million people with Down syndrome (DS) worldwide. In developed
countries, the vast majority of these individuals will develop Alzheimer's disease …

Pericentrin expression in Down's syndrome

M Salemi, C Barone, C Romano, R Salluzzo… - Neurological …, 2013 - Springer
Down's syndrome (DS) is the most frequent genetic cause of intellectual disability and is a
chromosomal abnormality of chromosome 21 trisomy. The pericentrin gene (PCNT) has …