npj agingPub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.1038/s41514-024-00145-5
Marcos R Costa
{"title":"Switch of innate to adaptative immune responses in the brain of patients with Alzheimer's disease correlates with tauopathy progression.","authors":"Marcos R Costa","doi":"10.1038/s41514-024-00145-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41514-024-00145-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neuroinflammation is a key feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD). In this work, analysis of single- cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) data obtained from the brain of patients with AD provides evidence supporting a switch from an innate to an adaptative immune response during tauopathy progression, with both disease-associated microglia (DAM) and CD8+ T cells becoming more frequent at advanced Braak stages.</p>","PeriodicalId":94160,"journal":{"name":"npj aging","volume":"10 1","pages":"19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10948755/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140159807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
npj agingPub Date : 2024-03-08DOI: 10.1038/s41514-024-00142-8
Trevor H Torigoe, D Craig Willcox, Michio Shimabukuro, Moritake Higa, Mariana Gerschenson, Anastasia Andrukhiv, Makoto Suzuki, Brian J Morris, Randi Chen, Greg S Gojanovich, Richard C Allsopp, Bradley J Willcox
{"title":"Novel protective effect of the FOXO3 longevity genotype on mechanisms of cellular aging in Okinawans.","authors":"Trevor H Torigoe, D Craig Willcox, Michio Shimabukuro, Moritake Higa, Mariana Gerschenson, Anastasia Andrukhiv, Makoto Suzuki, Brian J Morris, Randi Chen, Greg S Gojanovich, Richard C Allsopp, Bradley J Willcox","doi":"10.1038/s41514-024-00142-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41514-024-00142-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The genetic association of FOXO3 genotypes with human longevity is well established, although the mechanism is not fully understood. We now report on the relationship of the FOXO3 longevity variant rs2802292 with telomere length, telomerase activity, FOXO3 expression, and inflammatory cytokine levels in men and women. In agreement with earlier work, the FOXO3 longevity variant conferred protection against telomere shortening of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from adults aged 55 years and older. This was accompanied by higher levels of telomerase activity in mononuclear cells for carriers of the longevity-associated FOXO3 G-allele of SNP rs2802292 (P = 0.015). FOXO3 mRNA expression increased slightly with age in both young (P = 0.02) and old (P = 0.08) G-allele carriers. Older female G-allele carriers displayed a modest decline in levels of pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-6 with age (P = 0.07). In contrast, older male G-allele carriers displayed an age-dependent increase in levels of anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 with age (P = 0.04). Thus, FOXO3 may act through several different pro-longevity mechanisms, which may differ by age and sex.</p>","PeriodicalId":94160,"journal":{"name":"npj aging","volume":"10 1","pages":"18"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10923797/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140066404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
npj agingPub Date : 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1038/s41514-024-00144-6
Rosanne D Reitsema, Ashok K Kumawat, Bernd-Cornèl Hesselink, Debbie van Baarle, Yannick van Sleen
{"title":"Effects of ageing and frailty on circulating monocyte and dendritic cell subsets.","authors":"Rosanne D Reitsema, Ashok K Kumawat, Bernd-Cornèl Hesselink, Debbie van Baarle, Yannick van Sleen","doi":"10.1038/s41514-024-00144-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41514-024-00144-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ageing is associated with dysregulated immune responses, resulting in impaired resilience against infections and low-grade inflammation known as inflammageing. Frailty is a measurable condition in older adults characterized by decreased health and physical impairment. Dendritic cells (DCs) and monocytes play a crucial role in initiating and steering immune responses. To assess whether their frequencies and phenotypes in the blood are affected by ageing or frailty, we performed a flow cytometry study on monocyte and DC subsets in an immune ageing cohort. We included (n = 15 in each group) healthy young controls (HYC, median age 29 years), healthy older controls (HOC, 73 years) and Frail older controls (76 years). Monocyte subsets (classical, intermediate, non-classical) were identified by CD14 and CD16 expression, and DC subsets (conventional (c)DC1, cDC2, plasmacytoid (p)DC) by CD11c, CD1c, CD141 and CD303 expression. All subsets were checked for TLR2, TLR4, HLA-DR, CD86, PDL1, CCR7 and CD40 expression. We observed a lower proportion of pDCs in HOC compared to HYC. Additionally, we found higher expression of activation markers on classical and intermediate monocytes and on cDC2 in HOC compared to HYC. Frail participants had a higher expression of CD40 on classical and non-classical monocytes compared to the HOC group. We document a substantial effect of ageing on monocytes and DCs. Reduced pDCs in older people may underlie their impaired ability to counter viral infections, whereas enhanced expression of activation markers could indicate a state of inflammageing. Future studies could elucidate the functional consequences of CD40 upregulation with frailty.</p>","PeriodicalId":94160,"journal":{"name":"npj aging","volume":"10 1","pages":"17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10912203/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140029871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
npj agingPub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1038/s41514-024-00141-9
Adrián Noriega de la Colina, Timothy P Morris, Arthur F Kramer, Navin Kaushal, Maiya R Geddes
{"title":"Your move: A precision medicine framework for physical activity in aging.","authors":"Adrián Noriega de la Colina, Timothy P Morris, Arthur F Kramer, Navin Kaushal, Maiya R Geddes","doi":"10.1038/s41514-024-00141-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41514-024-00141-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94160,"journal":{"name":"npj aging","volume":"10 1","pages":"16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10899613/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139984920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
npj agingPub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1038/s41514-024-00143-7
Naomi Shek, Anna-Maria Choy, Chim C Lang, Bruce E Miller, Ruth Tal-Singer, Charlotte E Bolton, Neil C Thomson, James D Chalmers, Matt J Bown, David E Newby, Faisel Khan, Jeffrey T J Huang
{"title":"Accelerated elastin degradation by age-disease interaction: a common feature in age-related diseases.","authors":"Naomi Shek, Anna-Maria Choy, Chim C Lang, Bruce E Miller, Ruth Tal-Singer, Charlotte E Bolton, Neil C Thomson, James D Chalmers, Matt J Bown, David E Newby, Faisel Khan, Jeffrey T J Huang","doi":"10.1038/s41514-024-00143-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41514-024-00143-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Aging is a major driving force for many diseases but the relationship between chronological age, the aging process and age-related diseases is not fully understood. Fragmentation and loss of ultra-long-lived elastin are key features in aging and several age-related diseases leading to increased mortality. By comparing the relationship between age and elastin turnover with healthy volunteers, we show that accelerated elastin turnover by age-disease interaction is a common feature of age-related diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":94160,"journal":{"name":"npj aging","volume":"10 1","pages":"15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10899634/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139984919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
npj agingPub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1038/s41514-024-00140-w
Alessandra Zonari, Lear E Brace, Kallie Al-Katib, William F Porto, Daniel Foyt, Mylieneth Guiang, Edgar Andres Ochoa Cruz, Bailey Marshall, Melissa Gentz, Gabriela Rapozo Guimarães, Octavio L Franco, Carolina R Oliveira, Mariana Boroni, Juliana L Carvalho
{"title":"Author Correction: Senotherapeutic peptide treatment reduces biological age and senescence burden in human skin models.","authors":"Alessandra Zonari, Lear E Brace, Kallie Al-Katib, William F Porto, Daniel Foyt, Mylieneth Guiang, Edgar Andres Ochoa Cruz, Bailey Marshall, Melissa Gentz, Gabriela Rapozo Guimarães, Octavio L Franco, Carolina R Oliveira, Mariana Boroni, Juliana L Carvalho","doi":"10.1038/s41514-024-00140-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41514-024-00140-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94160,"journal":{"name":"npj aging","volume":"10 1","pages":"14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10869680/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139743014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
npj agingPub Date : 2024-02-08DOI: 10.1038/s41514-024-00136-6
Arindam Nandi, Nathaniel Counts, Janina Bröker, Sabrina Malik, Simiao Chen, Rachael Han, Jessica Klusty, Benjamin Seligman, Daniel Tortorice, Daniel Vigo, David E Bloom
{"title":"Cost of care for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in the United States: 2016 to 2060.","authors":"Arindam Nandi, Nathaniel Counts, Janina Bröker, Sabrina Malik, Simiao Chen, Rachael Han, Jessica Klusty, Benjamin Seligman, Daniel Tortorice, Daniel Vigo, David E Bloom","doi":"10.1038/s41514-024-00136-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41514-024-00136-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Medical and long-term care for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRDs) can impose a large economic burden on individuals and societies. We estimated the per capita cost of ADRDs care in the in the United States in 2016 and projected future aggregate care costs during 2020-2060. Based on a previously published methodology, we used U.S. Health and Retirement Survey (2010-2016) longitudinal data to estimate formal and informal care costs. In 2016, the estimated per patient cost of formal care was $28,078 (95% confidence interval [CI]: $25,893-$30,433), and informal care cost valued in terms of replacement cost and forgone wages was $36,667 ($34,025-$39,473) and $15,792 ($12,980-$18,713), respectively. Aggregate formal care cost and formal plus informal care cost using replacement cost and forgone wage methods were $196 billion (95% uncertainty range [UR]: $179-$213 billion), $450 billion ($424-$478 billion), and $305 billion ($278-$333 billion), respectively, in 2020. These were projected to increase to $1.4 trillion ($837 billion-$2.2 trillion), $3.3 trillion ($1.9-$5.1 trillion), and $2.2 trillion ($1.3-$3.5 trillion), respectively, in 2060.</p>","PeriodicalId":94160,"journal":{"name":"npj aging","volume":"10 1","pages":"13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10853249/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139708909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
npj agingPub Date : 2024-02-07DOI: 10.1038/s41514-023-00130-4
Johannes K Ehinger, Emil Westerlund, Eleonor Åsander Frostner, Michael Karlsson, Gesine Paul, Fredrik Sjövall, Eskil Elmér
{"title":"Mitochondrial function in peripheral blood cells across the human lifespan.","authors":"Johannes K Ehinger, Emil Westerlund, Eleonor Åsander Frostner, Michael Karlsson, Gesine Paul, Fredrik Sjövall, Eskil Elmér","doi":"10.1038/s41514-023-00130-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41514-023-00130-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mitochondrial dysfunction is considered a hallmark of aging. Up to now, a gradual decline of mitochondrial respiration with advancing age has mainly been demonstrated in human muscle tissue. A handful of studies have examined age-related mitochondrial dysfunction in human blood cells, and only with small sample sizes and mainly in platelets. In this study, we analyzed mitochondrial respiration in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and platelets from 308 individuals across the human lifespan (0-86 years). In regression analyses, with adjustment for false discovery rate (FDR), we found age-related changes in respiratory measurements to be either small or absent. The main significant changes were an age-related relative decline in complex I-linked respiration and a corresponding rise of complex II-linked respiration in PBMCs. These results add to the understanding of mitochondrial dysfunction in aging and to its possible role in immune cell and platelet senescence.</p>","PeriodicalId":94160,"journal":{"name":"npj aging","volume":"10 1","pages":"10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10850142/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139704305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
npj agingPub Date : 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1038/s41514-024-00138-4
V Lelarge, R Capelle, F Oger, T Mathieu, B Le Calvé
{"title":"Senolytics: from pharmacological inhibitors to immunotherapies, a promising future for patients' treatment.","authors":"V Lelarge, R Capelle, F Oger, T Mathieu, B Le Calvé","doi":"10.1038/s41514-024-00138-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41514-024-00138-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The involvement of cellular senescence in the initiation and propagation of diseases is clearly characterized, making the elimination of senescent cells essential to treat age-related diseases. The development of senolytic drugs demonstrated that targeting these cells limits the deterioration of patients' condition, by inducing apoptosis. Nevertheless, the first generations of senolytics which has been developed displayed their activities through specific mechanisms and demonstrated several limitations during clinical development. However, the rational to eliminate senescent cells remains evident, with the necessity to develop specific therapies in a context of diseases and tissues. The evolutions in the field of drug discovery open the way to a new generation of senolytic therapies, such as immunological approaches (CAR-T cells, Antibody-Drug Conjugated or vaccines), which require preliminary steps of research to identify markers specifically expressed on senescent cells, demonstrating promising specific effects. Currently, the preclinical development of these strategies appears more challenging to avoid strong side effects, but the expected results are commensurate with patients' hopes for treatments. In this review, we highlight the fact that the classical senolytic approach based on drug repurposing display limited efficacy and probably reached its limits in term of clinical development. The recent development of more complex therapies and the extension of interest in the domain of senescence in different fields of research allow to extend the possibility to discover powerful therapies. The future of age-related diseases treatment is linked to the development of new approaches based on cell therapy or immunotherapy to offer the best treatment for patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":94160,"journal":{"name":"npj aging","volume":"10 1","pages":"12"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10847408/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139699177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
npj agingPub Date : 2024-02-03DOI: 10.1038/s41514-024-00139-3
Marco Quarta, Marco Demaria
{"title":"On the past, present and future of senotherapeutics.","authors":"Marco Quarta, Marco Demaria","doi":"10.1038/s41514-024-00139-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41514-024-00139-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94160,"journal":{"name":"npj aging","volume":"10 1","pages":"11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10838299/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139682234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}