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ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2015

B cells in the aging immune system: time to consider B-1 cells.

Nichol E Holodick, Thomas L Rothstein

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Review in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  2. The transcription factor Bcl11a is essential for B-1a cell maintenance during aging.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  3. Effect of Age on Xenobiotic-Induced Autoimmunity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  16. The possible pathophysiology mechanism of cytokine storm in elderly adults with COVID-19 infection: the contribution of "inflame-aging".Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2020
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  19. Aging and Lung Disease.Annual review of physiology · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Nichol E HolodickCenter for Oncology and Cell Biology, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York.
Thomas L RothsteinCenter for Oncology and Cell Biology, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York.

Funding

PHORBOL ESTER RESPONSIVE B LYMPHOCYTESR01AI029690 · NIAID · WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI ROTHSTEIN, THOMAS L · 1990 to 2019
$6.9M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI029690
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The investigation of immune senescence has uncovered many changes in B cell development, maintenance, and function with increasing age. However, most of these studies have focused on conventional B cell subsets in the spleen. The B-1 cell subset is an essential arm of the innate immune system, which in general has been understudied in terms of immune senescence. Here, we review what is currently known about B cells during aging and go on to describe why B-1 cell biology is an important component of the aging immune system in the context of diseases that most affect the aged population.

Indexed as

AgingAnimalsB-Lymphocyte SubsetsHumansImmune SystemImmunity, InnateImmunoglobulin MImmunoglobulin Msecretory IgMagingB-1 cellsB cellssenescence

Identifiers

PMID26194480
PMCPMC4679494

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