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ReviewImmunological reviews2023

Senescent T cells: Beneficial and detrimental roles.

Phatthamon Laphanuwat, Daniel Claudio Oliveira Gomes, Arne N Akbar

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Review in Immunological reviews, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
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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

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

3 authors.

Phatthamon LaphanuwatDivision of Medicine, University College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7778-0031
Daniel Claudio Oliveira GomesDivision of Medicine, University College London, London, UK.
Arne N AkbarDivision of Medicine, University College London, London, UK.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/P00184X/1Medical Research Council MR/T015853/1Medical Research Council MR/T030534/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As the thymus involutes during aging, the T-cell pool has to be maintained by the periodic expansion of preexisting T cells during adulthood. A conundrum is that repeated episodes of activation and proliferation drive the differentiation of T cells toward replicative senescence, due to telomere erosion. This review discusses mechanisms that regulate the end-stage differentiation (senescence) of T cells. Although these cells, within both CD4 and CD8 compartments, lose proliferative activity after antigen-specific challenge, they acquire innate-like immune function. While this may confer broad immune protection during aging, these senescent T cells may also cause immunopathology, especially in the context of excessive inflammation in tissue microenvironments.

Indexed as

Cellular SenescenceT-LymphocytesAdultAgingAntigensCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCell DifferentiationHumansAntigensagingsenescenceT cellTEMRAterminally differentiated cell

Identifiers

PMID37098109
PMCPMC10952287

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