Collections and calls for papers

Our knowledge of the negative consequences of the important differences of immune function seen in younger and older individuals is scarce, and mostly limited to humans, mice and to some extent monkeys and c...

• Graham Pawelec

Although rapid advances in the field of cancer immunotherapy have greatly improved outcomes in many tumor types, others such as breast and ovarian cancer, glioblastoma, pancreatic and hepatic cancer respond ...

Seasonal influenza is a common respiratory infection that causes significant health burden worldwide, particularly in older adults. Studies of altered immune functions with aging in human and animal model sy...

• Sean X. Leng, MD, PhD
• Albert Shaw, MD, PhD

Due to the cancellation of the meeting “Immunity, Metabolism and Aging”, scheduled to take place in Modena (Italy), September 24-25 2020, for the difficult circumstances created by the global COVID-19 pandem...

• Daniela Frasca and Andrea Cossarizza

Space travel is associated with immune dysregulation that may increase clinical risk in future exploration crew. Prolonged orbital spaceflight missions have shown a number of immune and clinical changes that...

Immunobiology of mucosal system and aging is thematic series of the journal Immunity & Ageing. Mucosal immunology is the study of immune responses of the oral, lung, intestine and urogenital areas of the bod...

• Anshu Agrawal, PhD

The thymus is critical for the development and generation of self-restricted and immunocompetent self-tolerant T cells. The thymus undergoes age-related reduction in size and activity (age-associated thymic ...

• Donald Palmer

Accumulating data indicate that maintaining adequate levels of vitamins and minerals can help offset deleterious age-related alterations to the immune system. However, older adults may face difficulties in m...

Topical Collection for Immunity & Ageing: Neuroimmunology and Ageing by Moisés E. Bauer (PUCRS, Brazil) and Roberto Paganelli (Università degli Studi G. d'Annunzio Chieti e Pescara, Italy). This topical coll...

Aging and obesity are high risk factors for multiple conditions and diseases. The term “adipaging” recently introduced indicates that they are both associated with inflammaging, and ameliorated by a healthy ...

Towards Biomarker of Human Immunosenescence is a thematic series of the journal Immunity & Ageing. ‘Immunosenescence’ describes the multifactorial changes in the immune system with advanced age. To increase ...