SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 and the aging immune system

JM Bartleson, D Radenkovic, AJ Covarrubias… - Nature aging, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global health threat with
particular risk for severe disease and death in older adults and in adults with age-related …

Aging, immunity, and COVID-19: how age influences the host immune response to coronavirus infections?

V Bajaj, N Gadi, AP Spihlman, SC Wu, CH Choi… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The novel coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 causing the
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has ravaged the world with over 72 million total …

Reversal of epigenetic aging and immunosenescent trends in humans

GM Fahy, RT Brooke, JP Watson, Z Good… - Aging cell, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Epigenetic “clocks” can now surpass chronological age in accuracy for estimating biological
age. Here, we use four such age estimators to show that epigenetic aging can be reversed …

Mechanisms underlying T cell ageing

JJ Goronzy, CM Weyand - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2019 - nature.com
T cell ageing has a pivotal role in rendering older individuals vulnerable to infections and
cancer and in impairing the response to vaccination. Easy accessibility to peripheral human …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting immune dysfunction in aging

S Borgoni, KS Kudryashova, K Burka… - Ageing research …, 2021 - Elsevier
Human aging is a multifactorial phenomenon that affects numerous organ systems and
cellular processes, with the immune system being one of the most dysregulated …

T cell regeneration after immunological injury

E Velardi, JJ Tsai, MRM van den Brink - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
Following periods of haematopoietic cell stress, such as after chemotherapy, radiotherapy,
infection and transplantation, patient outcomes are linked to the degree of immune …

Hallmarks of the aging T‐cell system

H Zhang, CM Weyand, JJ Goronzy - The FEBS journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The adaptive immune system has the enormous challenge to protect the host through the
generation and differentiation of pathogen‐specific short‐lived effector T cells while in …

Cellular senescence as a potential mediator of COVID‐19 severity in the elderly

J Nehme, M Borghesan, S Mackedenski, TG Bird… - Aging cell, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
SARS‐CoV‐2 is a novel betacoronavirus which infects the lower respiratory tract and can
cause coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), a complex respiratory distress syndrome …

Aging-related cellular, structural and functional changes in the lymph nodes: A significant component of immunosenescence? An overview

M Cakala-Jakimowicz, P Kolodziej-Wojnar… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Aging affects all tissues and organs. Aging of the immune system results in the severe
disruption of its functions, leading to an increased susceptibility to infections, an increase in …

Lessons of vascular specialization from secondary lymphoid organ lymphatic endothelial cells

S Arroz-Madeira, T Bekkhus, MH Ulvmar… - Circulation …, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Secondary lymphoid organs, such as lymph nodes, harbor highly specialized and
compartmentalized niches. These niches are optimized to facilitate the encounter of naive …