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ReviewSeminars in immunology2023

Disorganization of secondary lymphoid organs and dyscoordination of chemokine secretion as key contributors to immune aging.

Sandip Ashok Sonar, Makiko Watanabe, Janko Ž Nikolich

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Review in Seminars in immunology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. The spleen-brain axis in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: Integrating immune and metabolic regulation.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sandip Ashok SonarDepartment of Immunobiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson, Tucson, AZ, USA; The University of Arizona Center on Aging, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Makiko WatanabeDepartment of Immunobiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson, Tucson, AZ, USA; The University of Arizona Center on Aging, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Janko Ž NikolichDepartment of Immunobiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson, Tucson, AZ, USA; The University of Arizona Center on Aging, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson, Tucson, AZ, USA; the Aegis Consortium for Pandemic-free Future, University of Arizona Health Sciences, USA; BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. Electronic address: nikolich@arizona.edu.
University of Arizona · US

Funding

Thymic and Peripheral Aspects of T Cell Aging and RejuvenationP01AG052359 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI Bonnie LaFleur · 2017 to 2026
$23.5M
T Cell Homeostasis and Function in Immune SenescenceR37AG020719 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI JANKO Z. NIKOLICH · 2018 to 2026
$4.2M
T Cell Homeostasis and Function in Immune SenescenceR01AG020719 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI NIKOLICH, JANKO Z. · 2001 to 2012
$3.1M
Mechanisms of age-related susceptibility to the chikungunya virus (CHIKV)R01AG057701 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI NIKOLICH, JANKO Z. · 2018 to 2022
$1.7M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG052359NIA NIH HHS R01 AG020719NIA NIH HHS R01 AG057701NIA NIH HHS R37 AG020719
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aging is characterized by progressive loss of organ and tissue function, and the immune system is no exception to that inevitable principle. Of all the age-related changes in the body, reduction of the size of, and naïve T (Tn) cell output from, the thymus occurs earliest, being prominent already before or by the time of puberty. Therefore, to preserve immunity against new infections, over much of their lives, vertebrates dominantly rely on peripheral maintenance of the Tn cell pool in the secondary lymphoid organs (SLO). However, SLO structure and function subsequently also deteriorate with aging. Several recent studies have made a convincing case that this deterioration is of major importance to the erosion of protective immunity in the last third of life. Specifically, the SLO were found to accumulate multiple degenerative changes with aging. Importantly, the results from adoptive transfer and parabiosis studies teach us that the old microenvironment is the limiting factor for protective immunity in old mice. In this review, we discuss the extent, mechanisms, and potential role of stromal cell aging in the age-related alteration of T cell homeostatic maintenance and immune function decline. We use that discussion to frame the potential strategies to correct the SLO stromal aging defects - in the context of other immune rejuvenation approaches, - to improve functional immune responses and protective immunity in older adults.

Indexed as

AgingThymus GlandAnimalsAtaxiaChemokinesHumansImmune SystemLymphoid TissueMiceChemokinesImmune agingLymph node involutionLymphoid stromal cellsSecondary lymphoid organsT cell homeostasis

Identifiers

PMID37651849
PMCPMC10840697
OpenAlexW4386266807

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