Nature Aging

Time isn't kind to female T-cells

By McGill CJ, Benayoun BA

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Abstract

While investigating sex-differences in T-cell aging, Mkhikian et al., identified a role for excessive IL-7 signaling and N-glycan branching in age-related mouse and human female T-cell dysfunction. These findings point to the increasingly-recognized importance of the impact of biological sex on immune aging and delineate new targetable pathways in age-related immune dysfunction.

The paper

McGill CJ, Benayoun BA

Nature Aging, 18 Mar 2022

doi.org/10.1038/s43587-022-00185-0PubMed 36157102