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The Confluence of Sex Hormones and Aging on Immunity

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in immunology, June 2018
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Title
The Confluence of Sex Hormones and Aging on Immunity
Published in
Frontiers in immunology, June 2018
DOI 10.3389/fimmu.2018.01269
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Authors

Melanie R. Gubbels Bupp, Tanvi Potluri, Ashley L. Fink, Sabra L. Klein

Abstract

The immune systems of post-pubescent males and females differ significantly with profound consequences to health and disease. In many cases, sex-specific differences in the immune responses of young adults are also apparent in aged men and women. Moreover, as in young adults, aged women develop several late-adult onset autoimmune conditions more frequently than do men, while aged men continue to develop many cancers to a greater extent than aged women. However, sex differences in the immune systems of aged individuals have not been extensively investigated and data addressing the effectiveness of vaccinations and immunotherapies in aged men and women are scarce. In this review, we evaluate age- and sex hormone-related changes to innate and adaptive immunity, with consideration about how this impacts age- and sex-associated changes in the incidence and pathogenesis of autoimmunity and cancer as well as the efficacy of vaccination and cancer immunotherapy. We conclude that future preclinical and clinical studies should consider age and sex to better understand the ways in which these characteristics intersect with immune function and the resulting consequences for autoimmunity, cancer, and therapeutic interventions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 235 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 11%
Student > Master 27 11%
Researcher 26 11%
Student > Bachelor 26 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 6%
Other 42 18%
Unknown 73 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 50 21%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 28 12%
Immunology and Microbiology 18 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 18 8%
Neuroscience 8 3%
Other 24 10%
Unknown 89 38%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 May 2024.
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#2,038,052
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Outputs from Frontiers in immunology
#1,974
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#41,138
of 344,336 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in immunology
#68
of 745 outputs
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