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ArticleJournal of the American Aging Association2001

TCR Vβ repertoire in an Italian longeval population including centenarians.

G Pennesi, M Morellini, P Lulli, S Cappellacci, G Brioli, C Franceschi, S Trabace

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Article in Journal of the American Aging Association, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

G PennesiDepartment of Experimental Medicine and Pathology, Section of Genetics, University of Rome "La Sapienza", c/o L. Spallanzani Hospital, Via Portuense 292, 00128 Rome, Italy ; NEI/NIH, 10 Center Drive, Building 10, Room 10N218, Bethesda, MD 20892.
M Morellini
P Lulli
S Cappellacci
G Brioli
C Franceschi
S Trabace
Sapienza University of Rome · ITIstituto Nazionale di Riposo e Cura per Anziani · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During the last years, the hypothesis that aging and diseases are two distinct phenomena, and that successful aging is possible for most humans, has been put forward. We studied the TCR Vβ repertoire of T lymphocytes of healthy longevals and centenarians as crossing point of genetic predisposition and environmental effects to longevity, using the Spectra-typing method. TCR Vβ1, Vβ8, and Vβ20 were found to be expanded in the longeval population, compared with the younger control population. This repertoire can have been shaped by the selective action of particular HLA alleles, or by the clonal expansion of specific T cell clones, able to modulate the immune response to endogenous and exogenous antigens. Moreover, the skewed Vβ usage and the clonal expansion seem to be the effects of physiological changes occurring with aging and not pathological signs of malignity.

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PMID23604877
PMCPMC3455224
OpenAlexW1991947368

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