Aging and lung disease

SJ Cho, HW Stout-Delgado - Annual review of physiology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
People worldwide are living longer, and it is estimated that by 2050, the proportion of the
world's population over 60 years of age will nearly double. Natural lung aging is associated …

Age-dependent dysregulation of innate immunity

AC Shaw, DR Goldstein, RR Montgomery - Nature Reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
As we age, the innate immune system becomes dysregulated and is characterized by
persistent inflammatory responses that involve multiple immune and non-immune cell types …

Emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants expand species tropism to murines

H Shuai, JFW Chan, TTT Yuen, C Yoon, JC Hu… - …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Wildtype mice are not susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Emerging SARS-
CoV-2 variants, including B. 1.1. 7, B. 1.351, P. 1, and P. 3, contain mutations in spike that …

An immunostimulatory glycolipid that blocks SARS-CoV-2, RSV, and influenza infections in vivo

M Tsuji, MS Nair, K Masuda, C Castagna… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Prophylactic vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 have lowered the incidence of severe COVID-19, but
emergence of viral variants that are antigenically distinct from the vaccine strains are of …

Neutrophils in aging and aging‐related pathologies

K Van Avondt, JK Strecker, C Tulotta… - Immunological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past millennia, life expectancy has drastically increased. While a mere 25 years
during Bronze and Iron ages, life expectancy in many European countries and in Japan is …

[HTML][HTML] Dual nature of type I interferons in SARS-CoV-2-induced inflammation

C King, J Sprent - Trends in immunology, 2021 - cell.com
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The ability of our cells to secrete type I …

Sex, the aging immune system, and chronic disease

MRG Bupp - Cellular immunology, 2015 - Elsevier
The immune systems of men and women differ in significant ways, especially after puberty.
In particular, females are generally more prone to autoimmunity, but experience lower rates …

Aging of the innate immune system

AC Shaw, S Joshi, H Greenwood, A Panda… - Current opinion in …, 2010 - Elsevier
The innate immune system is composed of a network of cells including neutrophils, NK and
NKT cells, monocytes/macrophages, and dendritic cells that mediate the earliest interactions …

The role of dysregulated immune responses in COVID-19 pathogenesis

S Tahaghoghi-Hajghorbani, P Zafari, E Masoumi… - Virus research, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) which caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), is a pandemic threat to global …

Murine single-cell RNA-seq reveals cell-identity-and tissue-specific trajectories of aging

JC Kimmel, L Penland, ND Rubinstein… - Genome …, 2019 - genome.cshlp.org
Aging is a pleiotropic process affecting many aspects of mammalian physiology. Mammals
are composed of distinct cell type identities and tissue environments, but the influence of …