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ReviewCell insight2026

Remodeling of innate antiviral immunity in aging.

Xu Zhang, Qing Yang

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Review in Cell insight, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Xu ZhangDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Medical Research Institute, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Frontier Science Center for Immunology and Metabolism, State Key Laboratory of Virology and Biosafety, Taikang Center for Life and Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430071, China.
Qing YangDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Medical Research Institute, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Frontier Science Center for Immunology and Metabolism, State Key Laboratory of Virology and Biosafety, Taikang Center for Life and Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430071, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aging increases susceptibility to severe viral infection, weakens vaccine responses, promotes chronic inflammatory disease, and alters tumor immune surveillance. These outcomes reflect not a simple loss of immune activity, but age-associated remodeling of the amplitude, kinetics, and resolution of innate immune responses. In aged tissues, nucleic acid-sensing pathways often display elevated basal inflammatory or antiviral-like signaling, whereas inducible type I interferon (IFN) and interferon-stimulated gene (ISG) responses to infection or vaccination are delayed, blunted, or poorly resolved. This review summarizes the innate antiviral signaling pathways and discusses how aging and cellular senescence narrow the range between basal and inducible responses. We emphasize senescent cells as sources of senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) factors that suppress neighboring-cell antiviral IFN responses and amplify inflammatory tissue damage, and discuss strategies to restore inducible IFN competence while limiting chronic basal activation in older adults, to improve vaccine efficacy and treat aging-associated infectious diseases.

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AgingImmunosenescenceInflammationInnate antiviral immunityInterferonSASP

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PMID42866291
PMCPMC13657376

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