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Ageing promotes microglial accumulation of slow-degrading synaptic proteins

1 week 2 days ago
Neurodegenerative diseases affect 1 in 12 people globally and remain incurable. Central to their pathogenesis is a loss of neuronal protein maintenance and the accumulation of protein aggregates with ageing^(1,2). Here we engineered bioorthogonal tools³ that enabled us to tag the nascent neuronal proteome and study its turnover with ageing, its propensity to aggregate and its interaction with microglia. We show that neuronal protein half-life approximately doubles on average between 4-month-old...
Ian H Guldner

Blood Cell Mitochondrial Respiration Increases With Age and Varies by Sex in Healthy Adults

1 week 2 days ago
Mitochondrial dysfunction is recognized as a biological hallmark of aging; however, bioenergetic capacity across the healthy human life course remains insufficiently characterized. While aging is generally associated with a systemic decline in mitochondrial function ("age-related bioenergetic decline"), recent research suggests that age-related bioenergetic differences are context dependent. Blood cells are extensively utilized as accessible samples for human bioenergetic profiling; therefore,...
Howard J Phang

Healing of ischemic injury in the retina

1 week 2 days ago
Neuro- and retinal degenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, stroke, age-related macular degeneration, and central retinal artery occlusion, rob millions of their independence. Studying these diseases in human retinas has been hindered by the rapid loss of neuronal activity after death. While some CNS activity has been restored postmortem, synchronized neuronal transmission beyond 30 min has remained elusive. We overcome this barrier by reviving and sustaining light signal transmission in...
Silke Becker

Aging Reshapes gamma/delta T-Cell Immunity Through a Type I Interferon-Foxo1 Axis

1 week 2 days ago
Aging is associated with profound alterations in immune cell composition and function, yet the impact on peripheral γ/δ T-cell subsets remains incompletely understood. Here, we show that the peripheral γ/δ T-cell compartment is markedly remodeled with age in mice. Specifically, innate-like Ly-6C^(-) CD44^(hi) γ/δ T cells expand in secondary lymphoid organs (SLOs) of aged mice, while adaptive-like subsets decline. This age-related shift is accompanied by enhanced functionality, with Ly-6C^(-)...
Aurélie Durand