Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20591642›Full record

ReviewCurrent opinion in immunology2010

Metabolic syndrome, hormones, and maintenance of T cells during aging.

Hui-Chen Hsu, John D Mountz

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Review in Current opinion in immunology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hui-Chen HsuDepartment of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
John D Mountz
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

VASCULAR STATUS, PHYSICAL FUNCTION, AND HEALTHY AGINGP01AG022064 · NIA · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI JAZWINSKI, S MICHAL · 2004 to 2010
$9.6M
DEFECTIVE FAS APOPTOSIS DURING AGINGR01AG011653 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI MOUNTZ, JOHN D · 1993 to 2005
$1.4M
Regulation of Migration of Autoreactive Germinal Centers and Precursor B CellsI01BX000600 · VA · BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER · PI MOUNTZ, JOHN D · 2009 to 2017
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BLRD VA I01 BX000600NIA NIH HHS P01 AG022064NIA NIH HHS R01 AG011653
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although the phenotype of T-cell senescence has been extensively investigated, few studies have analyzed the factors that promote the generation and maintenance of naïve and memory T cells that exist throughout the lifespan of the individuals. Unlike senescent T cells, naïve and memory T cells are able to participate in useful immune responses as well as respond to new activation. Hormones such as leptin, ghrelin, insulin-like growth factor 1, IGFBP3, and cytokines, including IL-7, regulate both thymopoiesis and maintenance of naïve T cells in the periphery. Although chronic viruses such as cytomegalovirus (CMV) are thought to drive T-cell senescence, other microbes may be important for the maintenance of nonsenescent T cells. Microbiota of the gut can induce metabolic syndrome as well as modulate T-cell development into specific subpopulations of effector cells. Finally, T-cell generation, maintenance, and apoptosis depend upon pathways of energy utilization within the T cells, which parallel those that regulate overall metabolism. Therefore, better understanding of metabolic syndrome, T-cell metabolism, hormones, and microbiota may lead to new insights into the maintenance of proper immune responses in old age.

Indexed as

AgingCellular SenescenceHormonesHumansMetabolic SyndromeT-LymphocytesHormones

Identifiers

PMID20591642
PMCPMC2937064
OpenAlexW2049689834

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