Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27394014›Full record

ReviewClinics in geriatric medicine2016

Host Resistance and Immune Aging.

Thilinie Bandaranayake, Albert C Shaw

Open access · greenAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Clinics in geriatric medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% 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

32 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 84 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  6. Effects of Silibinin on Delaying Aging inAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  10. Immunology of Aging: the Birth of Inflammaging.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2023
    Review
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  13. Infectious diseases and cognition: do we have to worry?Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022
    Review
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  15. Immunosenescence and COVID-19.Mechanisms of ageing and development · 2022
    Review
  16. Sociodemographic Differences in Population-Level Immunosenescence in Older Age.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2022
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  19. Geriatric Mental Health and COVID-19: An Eye-Opener to the Situation of the Arab Countries in the Middle East and North Africa Region.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2020
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Thilinie BandaranayakeSection of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Albert C ShawSection of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. Electronic address: albert.shaw@yale.edu.
Yale University · US

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 Study Support Suite (YES3): Dashboard and Web Portal Software Supporting Research Workflow through integrated, customizable REDCap External ModulesP30AG021342 · NIA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Albert C Shaw · 2002 to 2026
$37.9M
TRAINING IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASEST32AI007517 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Jaimie Meyer, Albert C Shaw · 1997 to 2026
$6.1M
Midcareer Award in Translational Immunology of AgingK24AG042489 · NIA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SHAW, ALBERT C · 2012 to 2022
$1.8M
NIAID NIH HHS HHSN272201100019CNIAID NIH HHS HHSN272201100019INIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007517NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI089992NIA NIH HHS K24 AG042489NIA NIH HHS P30 AG021342
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human immune system aging results in impaired responses to pathogens or vaccines. In the innate immune system, which mediates the earliest pro-inflammatory responses to immunologic challenge, processes ranging from Toll-like Receptor function to Neutrophil Extracellular Trap formation are generally diminished in older adults. Dysregulated, enhanced basal inflammation with age reflecting activation by endogenous damage-associated ligands contributes to impaired innate immune responses. In the adaptive immune system, T and B cell subsets and function alter with age. The control of cytomegalovirus infection, particularly in the T lineage, plays a dominant role in the differentiation and diversity of the T cell compartment.

Indexed as

Immunity, CellularAgingHumansImmunity, InnateAgingB cellImmunosenescenceInflammationInnate immunityT cell

Identifiers

PMID27394014
PMCPMC6986475
OpenAlexW2400762424

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Registered trials

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