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ReviewMediators of inflammation2018

The Role of Immunosenescence in Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Erica Costantini, Chiara D'Angelo, Marcella Reale

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Review in Mediators of inflammation, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

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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

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

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  15. Immunosenescence: signaling pathways, diseases and therapeutic targets.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2025
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  18. Age-Related Cognitive Decline and Dementia: Interface of Microbiome-Immune-Neuronal Interactions.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2025
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  19. Plin2 Coordinates Immune and Metabolic Reprogramming in Lacrimal Gland Aging.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025
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29 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Erica CostantiniUnit of Immunodiagnostic and Molecular Pathology, Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences, "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2175-4226
Chiara D'AngeloUnit of Immunodiagnostic and Molecular Pathology, Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences, "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy.
Marcella RealeUnit of Immunodiagnostic and Molecular Pathology, Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences, "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4164-8781

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aging is characterized by the progressive decline of physiological function and tissue homeostasis leading to increased vulnerability, degeneration, and death. Aging-related changes of the innate and adaptive immune system include decline in the preservation and enhancement of many immune functions, such as changes in the number of circulating monocytic and dendritic cells, thymic involution, T cell polyfunctionality, or production of proinflammatory cytokines, and are defined as immunosenescence. Inflammatory functions are increased with age, causing the chronic low-grade inflammation, referred to as inflamm-aging, that contribute, together with immunosenescence, to neurodegenerative diseases. In this review, we discuss the link between the immune and nervous systems and how the immunosenescence and inflamm-aging can contribute to neurodegenerative diseases.

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AnimalsDendritic CellsHumansImmunity, InnateImmunosenescenceNeurodegenerative Diseases

Identifiers

PMID29706800
PMCPMC5863336

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