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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2023

Aging dysregulates neutrophil extracellular trap formation in response to HIV in blood and genital tissues.

Laura Moreno de Lara, Alexandra Werner, Anna Borchers, Francisco J Carrillo-Salinas, Wendelin Marmol, Siddharth Parthasarathy, Vidya Iyer, Alison Vogell, Diego Illanes, Ana C Abadía-Molina and 3 more

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in Viral Infections.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  3. Innate Immune Protection Against HIV in the Female Genital Tract.American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) · 2026
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  6. Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) as a Potential Target for Anti-Aging: Role of Therapeutic Apheresis.Hormone and metabolic research = Hormon- und Stoffwechselforschung = Hormones et metabolisme · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Laura Moreno de LaraDepartment of Immunology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.
Alexandra Werner *Department of Immunology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.
Anna Borchers *Department of Immunology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.
Francisco J Carrillo-SalinasDepartment of Immunology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.
Wendelin MarmolProgram in Genetics, Molecular, and Cellular Biology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.
Siddharth ParthasarathyDepartment of Immunology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.
Vidya IyerDepartment of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.
Alison VogellDepartment of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.
Diego IllanesDepartment of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.
Ana C Abadía-MolinaInstituto de Biopatología y Medicina Regenerativa, Centro de Investigación Biomédica, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain.
Christina OchsenbauerDepartment of Medicine and UAB Center for AIDS Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States.
Charles R WiraDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, United States.
Marta Rodriguez-GarciaDepartment of Immunology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.
Tufts University · USTufts Medical Center · USDartmouth College · USUniversidad de Granada · ESUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

Impact of Aging on Mucosal Immune Protection in the Female ReproductiveR01AG064794 · NIA · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI WIRA, CHARLES ROBERT · 2019 to 2023
$2.8M
Aging Compromises Neutrophil-Mediated Innate Protection Against HIV in the Human Female Genital TractR01AG060801 · NIA · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI RODRIGUEZ GARCIA, MARTA · 2018 to 2022
$2.6M
Identification of Protective Innate Immune Memory Responses Against HIV Acquisition in the Human Female Genital TractR21AI172065 · NIAID · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI RODRIGUEZ GARCIA, MARTA · 2022 to 2023
$454k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI172065NIA NIH HHS R01 AG060801NIA NIH HHS R01 AG064794
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Women acquire HIV through sexual transmission, with increasing incidence in women >50 years old. Identifying protective mechanisms in the female genital tract (FGT) is important to prevent HIV-acquisition in women as they age. Human genital and blood neutrophils inactivate HIV by releasing neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), an innate protective mechanism against HIV-infection. However, how NET formation is triggered by HIV in different tissues and whether this mechanism is affected by aging remain unknown. We demonstrate that the mechanisms that trigger NET release in response to HIV are different in blood and genital tissues, and that NET release decreases with aging. In blood neutrophils, HIV stimulation independently activated calcium pathways and endosomal TLR8, but aging reduced calcium responses, resulting in delayed NET release. In contrast, calcium responses were absent in genital neutrophils and NET release was triggered preferentially through TLR8 activation, but aging impaired this pathway. HIV induced NET formation through non-lytic pathways in blood and FGT neutrophils, except for a small subset of NETs that incorporated annexin V and lactoferrin predominantly in blood, suggesting proinflammatory and lytic NET release. Our findings demonstrate that blood neutrophils cannot model genital neutrophil responses which has important implications to understanding protection against HIV acquisition.

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Extracellular TrapsHIV InfectionsAgingCalciumFemaleGenitaliaHumansMiddle AgedNeutrophilsToll-Like Receptor 8CalciumToll-Like Receptor 8agingfemale genital tractHIV preventionmenopauseNETsneutrophil extracellular trapsneutrophilswomen

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PMID38035114
PMCPMC10684664
OpenAlexW4388704928

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