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ReviewCurrent opinion in immunology2010

Aging of the innate immune system.

Albert C Shaw, Samit Joshi, Hannah Greenwood, Alexander Panda, Janet M Lord

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In one paragraph

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. It is linked to trial NCT04736251 (A Prospective Intra-patient Single-blinded Randomised Trial to Examine the Mechanistic Basis of fractiOnal Ablative carbOn Dioxide Laser Therapy in Treating Adult Burns and/or Trauma Patients With Hypertrophic Scarring), which is not on this map. Cited by 336 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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336citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT04736251 unknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2019, after this paper: background citation

A Prospective Intra-patient Single-blinded Randomised Trial to Examine the Mechanistic Basis of fractiOnal Ablative carbOn Dioxide Laser Therapy in Treating Adult Burns and/or Trauma Patients With Hypertrophic Scarring

TypeobservationalSponsorNaiem MoiemenRan2019 to 2023Enrolled60ConditionsBurn Scar, Scar
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

336 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Association between the systemic inflammation response index and prognosis in lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  16. Murine Progeria Model Exhibits Delayed Fracture Healing With Senescent Phenotype and Dysregulated Immune Response.Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society · 2026
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276 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Albert C ShawSection of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, 300 Cedar St. Box 208022, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. albert.shaw@yale.edu
Samit Joshi
Hannah Greenwood
Alexander Panda
Janet M Lord

Funding

Systems investigation of vaccine responses in B cell depleted autoimmune patientsU19AI089992 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI David A. Hafler, RUTH R MONTGOMERY · 2010 to 2026
$50.4M
Yale Training Program in Geriatric Clinical Epidemiology and Aging-Related ResearchT32AG019134 · NIA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Terri R. Fried · 2001 to 2026
$7.5M
IMMUNE FUNCTION AND BIODEFENSE IN CHILDREN. ELDERLY AND IMMUNOCOMPROMI-266050031N01AI050031 · NIAID · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI LARSEN, CHRISTOPHER · 2006 to 2006
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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilNIAID NIH HHS N01 AI050031NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI089992NIA NIH HHS AG019134NIA NIH HHS T32 AG019134PHS HHS N0150031
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 with pathogens. Age-associated defects are observed in the activation of all of these cell types, linked to compromised signal transduction pathways including the Toll-like Receptors. However, aging is also characterized by a constitutive pro-inflammatory environment (inflamm-aging) with persistent low-grade innate immune activation that may augment tissue damage caused by infections in elderly individuals. Thus, immunosenescence in the innate immune system appears to reflect dysregulation, rather than exclusively impaired function.

Indexed as

Immunity, InnateCellular SenescenceHumansImmune System

Identifiers

PMID20667703
PMCPMC4034446

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