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ReviewClinical reviews in allergy & immunology2023

Immunology of Aging: the Birth of Inflammaging.

T Fulop, A Larbi, G Pawelec, A Khalil, A A Cohen, K Hirokawa, J M Witkowski, C Franceschi

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Review in Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 293 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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293citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

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

293 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  10. CD8Immunity & ageing : I & A · 2026
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  12. Extracellular vesicles and epigenetic aging clocks in tissue aging: an exosome-focused conceptual framework with a focus on skin.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2026
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  17. Challenge-based ex vivo immune profiling reveals stimulus-dependent peripheral immune reprogramming in Alzheimer's disease.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2026
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233 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

8 authors.

T FulopResearch Center On Aging, Geriatric Division, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, 12th Avenue North, Sherbrooke, QC, 3001J1H 5N4, Canada. Tamas.Fulop@Usherbrooke.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5835-7449
A LarbiSingapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Immunos Building, Biopolis, Singapore, Singapore.
G PawelecDepartment of Immunology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
A KhalilResearch Center On Aging, Geriatric Division, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, 12th Avenue North, Sherbrooke, QC, 3001J1H 5N4, Canada.
A A CohenGroupe de Recherche PRIMUS, Department of Family Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, 3001 12e Ave N, Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 5N4, Canada.
K HirokawaDepartment of Pathology, Tokyo and Nito-Memory Nakanosogo Hospital, Institute of Health and Life Science, Tokyo Med. Dent. University, Tokyo, Japan.
J M WitkowskiDepartment of Pathophysiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
C FranceschiAlma Mater, Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Funding

cihr 106634 and PJT-162366
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The inflammaging concept was introduced in 2000 by Prof. Franceschi. This was an evolutionary or rather a revolutionary conceptualization of the immune changes in response to a lifelong stress. This conceptualization permitted to consider the lifelong proinflammatory process as an adaptation which could eventually lead to either beneficial or detrimental consequences. This dichotomy is influenced by both the genetics and the environment. Depending on which way prevails in an individual, the outcome may be healthy longevity or pathological aging burdened with aging-related diseases. The concept of inflammaging has also revealed the complex, systemic nature of aging. Thus, this conceptualization opens the way to consider age-related processes in their complexity, meaning that not only the process but also all counter-processes should be considered. It has also opened the way to add new concepts to the original one, leading to better understanding of the nature of inflammaging and of aging itself. Finally, it showed the way towards potential multimodal interventions involving a holistic approach to optimize the aging process towards a healthy longevity.

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AgingInflammationFemaleHumansLongevityParturitionPregnancyCytokinesFree radicalsImmunobiographyImmunosenescenceInflammagingMacrophagesMicrobiomeMitochondriaSASPSignalingTrained immunity

Identifiers

PMID34536213
PMCPMC8449217

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