Human Immunosenescence

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - Tập 1067 Số 1 - Trang 56-65 - 2006
Graham Pawelec1, Sven D. Koch1, Claudio Franceschi2, Anders Wikby3
1University of Tübingen Medical School, Center for Medical Research, ZMF, Waldhörnlestr 22, D-72072 Tübingen, Germany
2University of Bologna, Department of Experimental Pathology, via S. Giacomo 12, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
3Department of Natural Science and Biomedicine, School of Health Sciences, Jönköping University, 551 11 Jönköping, Sweden

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Abstract:  The rate of acceleration of the frequency of death due to cardiovascular disease or cancer increases with age from middle age up to around 75–80 years, plateauing thereafter. Mortality due to infectious disease, however, does not plateau, but continues to accelerate indefinitely. The elderly are particularly susceptible to novel infectious agents such as SARS, as well as to previously encountered pathogens. Why is this? The elderly commonly possess oligoclonal expansions of T cells, especially of CD8 cells, which, surprisingly, are associated with cytomegalovirus (CMV) seropositivity. This in turn is associated with many of the same phenotypic and functional alterations to T cell immunity that have been suggested as biomarkers of immune system aging. We suggest that, in fact, CMV, not age per se, is the prime driving force behind many or most of the oligoclonal expansions and altered phenotypes and functions of CD8 cells in the elderly. Thus, the manner in which CMV and the host immune system interact (over which period? on which genetic background? with which co‐infections?) is critical in determining the “age” of adaptive immunity and hence human longevity. In this respect, immunosenescence is infectious.

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Tập 1067 Số 1

56-65

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