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ReviewOxidative medicine and cellular longevity2020

Implications of Oxidative Stress and Cellular Senescence in Age-Related Thymus Involution.

Alexandra Barbouti, Panagiotis V S Vasileiou, Konstantinos Evangelou, Konstantinos G Vlasis, Alexandra Papoudou-Bai, Vassilis G Gorgoulis, Panagiotis Kanavaros

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Review in Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Alexandra BarboutiDepartment of Anatomy-Histology-Embryology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6730-359X
Panagiotis V S VasileiouMolecular Carcinogenesis Group, Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6739-0619
Konstantinos EvangelouMolecular Carcinogenesis Group, Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Konstantinos G VlasisDepartment of Anatomy, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Alexandra Papoudou-BaiDepartment of Pathology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3932-6652
Vassilis G GorgoulisMolecular Carcinogenesis Group, Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Panagiotis KanavarosDepartment of Anatomy-Histology-Embryology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRUniversity of Ioannina · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human thymus is a primary lymphoepithelial organ which supports the production of self-tolerant T cells with competent and regulatory functions. Paradoxically, despite the crucial role that it exerts in T cell-mediated immunity and prevention of systemic autoimmunity, the thymus is the first organ of the body that exhibits age-associated degeneration/regression, termed "thymic involution." A hallmark of this early phenomenon is a progressive decline of thymic mass as well as a decreased output of naïve T cells, thus resulting in impaired immune response. Importantly, thymic involution has been recently linked with cellular senescence which is a stress response induced by various stimuli. Accumulation of senescent cells in tissues has been implicated in aging and a plethora of age-related diseases. In addition, several lines of evidence indicate that oxidative stress, a well-established trigger of senescence, is also involved in thymic involution, thus highlighting a possible interplay between oxidative stress, senescence, and thymic involution.

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Age FactorsAnimalsCellular SenescenceHumansOxidative StressThymus Gland

Identifiers

PMID32089780
PMCPMC7025075
OpenAlexW3004497539

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