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ToolsClements, Sarah J., Maijo, Monica, Ivory, Kamal, Nicoletti, Claudio and Carding, Simon R. (2017) Age-associated decline in dendritic cell function and the impact of Mediterranean diet intervention in elderly subjects. Frontiers in Nutrition, 4. ISSN 2296-861X
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Abstract
Introduction: Aging is accompanied by increased susceptibility to infection and age-associated chronic diseases. It is also associated with reduced vaccine responses, which is often attributed to immunosenescence and the functional decline of the immune system. Immunosenescence is characterized by a chronic, low-grade, inflammatory state termed inflammaging. Habitants of Mediterranean (MED) regions maintain good health into old age; often attributed to MED diets. Hypothesis: Adoption of a MED-diet by elderly subjects, in Norfolk (UK), may improve immune responses of these individuals and in particular, dendritic cell (DC) function. Experimental approach: A total of 120 elderly subjects (65–79 years old) recruited onto the Nu-AGE study, a multicenter European dietary study specifically addressing the needs of the elderly, across five countries, and were randomized to the control or MED-diet groups, for one year. Blood samples were taken pre- and post-intervention for DC analysis and were compared with each other, and to samples obtained from 45 young (18–40 years old) subjects. MED-diet compliance was assessed using high performance liquid chromatography-with tandem mass spectrometry analysis of urine samples. Immune cell and DC subset numbers and concentrations of secreted proteins were determined by flow cytometric analysis. Results: As expected, reduced myeloid DC numbers were observed in blood samples from elderly subjects compared with young. The elevated secretion of the adipokine, resistin, after ex vivo stimulation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from elderly subjects, was significantly reduced after MED-diet intervention. Conclusion: This study provides further evidence of numerical and functional effects of aging on DCs. The MED-diet showed potential to impact on the aging immune cells investigated and could provide an economical approach to address problems associated with our aging population.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | dendritic cells,mediterranean diet,aging,cytokines,resistin,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Gastroenterology and Gut Biology |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jan 2018 16:30 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Aug 2023 10:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/65932 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fnut.2017.00065 |
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