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Immunosenescence is both functional/adaptive and dysfunctional/maladaptive.

ABSTRACT: Alterations in the immune system with aging are considered to underlie many age-related diseases. However, many elderly individuals remain healthy until even a very advanced age. There is also an increase in numbers of centenarians and their apparent fitness. We should therefore change our unilaterally detrimental consideration of age-related immune changes. Recent data taking into consideration the immunobiography concept may allow for meaningful distinctions among various aging trajectories. This implies that the aging immune system has a homeodynamic characteristic balanced between adaptive and maladaptive aspects. The survival and health of an individual depends from the equilibrium of this balance. In this article, we highlight which parts of the aging of the immune system may be considered adaptive in contrast to those that may be maladaptive.

SUBMITTER: Fulop T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7490574 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Immunosenescence is both functional/adaptive and dysfunctional/maladaptive.

Fulop T T Larbi A A Hirokawa K K Cohen A A AA Witkowski J M JM

Seminars in immunopathology 20200915 5

Alterations in the immune system with aging are considered to underlie many age-related diseases. However, many elderly individuals remain healthy until even a very advanced age. There is also an increase in numbers of centenarians and their apparent fitness. We should therefore change our unilaterally detrimental consideration of age-related immune changes. Recent data taking into consideration the immunobiography concept may allow for meaningful distinctions among various aging trajectories. T ...[more]

PMID: 32930852

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Immunosenescence is both functional/adaptive and dysfunctional/maladaptive.

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Immunosenescence is both functional/adaptive and dysfunctional/maladaptive.

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