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An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging
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While many diseases of aging have been linked to the immunological system, immune metrics capable of identifying the most at-risk individuals are lacking. From the blood immunome of 1,001 individuals aged 8–96 years, we developed a deep-learning method based on patterns of systemic age-related inflammation. The resulting inflammatory clock of aging (iAge) tracked with multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging, and is also associated with exceptional longevity in centenarians. The strongest contributor to iAge was the chemokine CXCL9, which was involved in cardiac aging, adverse cardiac remodeling and poor vascular function. Furthermore, aging endothelial cells in human and mice show loss of function, cellular senescence and hallmark phenotypes of arterial stiffness, all of which are reversed by silencing CXCL9. In conclusion, we identify a key role of CXCL9 in age-related chronic inflammation and derive a metric for multimorbidity that can be utilized for the early detection of age-related clinical phenotypes. From the blood immunome of 1,001 individuals aged 8–96 years, the authors used deep learning to develop an inflammatory clock of aging (iAge) that tracks with multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging, and is also associated with exceptional longevity in centenarians. The main contributor to iAge is the chemokine CXCL9, which is shown to control endothelial cell senescence and function.
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Using blood immune protein data from 1,001 people aged 8–96, the authors built a deep-learning inflammatory aging clock (iAge) that predicts chronological age and tracks multimorbidity, frailty, immunosenescence, and cardiovascular aging. CXCL9 emerged as the strongest positive contributor, and silencing it reversed endothelial dysfunction and senescence phenotypes in human and mouse models.
Key findings
- iAge correlated with chronological age at R = 0.78 (P < 10−16); the guided auto-encoder outperformed linear methods (P < 0.05) except a classic neural network (P = 0.54), with average test reconstruction errors of 15.2 years for age and 0.26 normalized for protein data.
- iAge was associated with multimorbidity in adults over 60 (n = 285, P < 0.01); Elastic Net prediction of multimorbidity had MAE = 0.41, with iAge, high cholesterol, and BMI among the largest coefficients. In 29 older adults, iAge in 2010 predicted 2017 frailty score (R² = 0.81, P < 0.001), stronger than calendar age. Among 19 centenarians and 18 controls, 13/19 centenarians were in the low iAge-index group (P = 0.028), and the iAge gene signature was associated with all-cause mortality in Framingham (P = 0.02, n = 2,290).
- iAge correlated with immunosenescence markers: naive CD8+ T-cell frequency and phospho-STAT responses across 818 individuals and 96 conditions (combined P < 10−5).
- CXCL9 was the top positive iAge contributor and rose with age (P < 10−15, starting around age 60). In 97 healthy adults aged 25–90, CXCL9 correlated with pulse wave velocity (R = 0.22) and relative wall thickness (R = 0.3) at P < 0.01, while LIF correlated negatively (R = −0.27 and −0.22). CXCL9 knockdown (~75% reduction) rescued tube formation, nitric oxide production, and Ac-LDL uptake in late-passage iPSC-ECs; RNA-seq showed ~fourfold CXCL9 increase at passage 8, inflammatory pathway upregulation, proliferation pathway downregulation, and reversal of arterial-stiffness-related CAM/MMP/COL gene changes.
Methods
- The Stanford 1000 Immunomes Project enrolled 1,001 ambulatory participants (339 males, 662 females) aged 8–96 between 2007 and 2016; serum cytokines were measured in 1,001, CMV status in 748, gene expression in 397, cellular phenotypes in 935, in vitro cytokine stimulations in 818, and a 53-item clinical questionnaire in 902. Only healthy controls from the chronic fatigue syndrome study were used.
- iAge was derived with a guided auto-encoder (GAE), a two-layer neural network balancing reconstruction and chronological-age prediction losses; fivefold cross-validation with nested threefold hyperparameter selection chose code length 5, depth 2, guidance ratio 0.2, and L2 = 0.001. Comparisons included Elastic Net, gradient boosting, PCA, plain auto-encoders, and neural networks.
- Validation used 37 Italian centenarians/controls, a Framingham Heart Study gene-expression signature with Cox regression (n = 2,290), a 97-person cardiovascular cohort, human iPSC-derived endothelial cells, mouse aortic rings, RNA-seq, flow/CyTOF immunophenotyping, Luminex/SOMAscan assays, and isometric myography.
Limitations
- The paper states that biological clocks generally do not directly reveal mechanism, so individual biomarkers require experimental testing; it also notes that the cytokine stimulation assay may not fully mirror in vivo stimuli and activates naive T cells and some helper T-cell subsets poorly. The authors also note that the iAge–chronological-age correlation (R = 0.78) is lower than a reported proteomic age metric (R = 0.92).
- The paper states that no statistical method predetermined sample size, no data were excluded, and no randomization or blinding was used; mouse experiments were not blinded. The iAge model used cross-sectional baseline data even though some participants had longitudinal samples.
- Evident from the text: several validation cohorts were modest in size (37 centenarian/control participants; 97 cardiovascular participants), and the Framingham analysis relied on a derived gene signature because sufficient proteomics data were unavailable, which may limit direct comparability and generalizability.
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“This metric for chronic inflammation accurately predicts cAge in the population (Fig. 1a) using the total inflammatory burden as measured by the level of circulating immune proteins (Extended Data Fig. 4).”
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“The top features with the largest coefficients included iAge, high cholesterol and BMI (Extended Data Fig. 5c).”
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“We observed a significant correlation between iAge and multimorbidity in the older adults in this study (>60 years old) (n = 285, P < 0.01) (Fig. 1b).”
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“Using a linear regression model where frailty score in 2017 was regressed onto iAge calculated in 2010 and controlled for cAge, sex, BMI and CMV status, we found that iAge from 2010 was predictive of frailty score in 2017 (R2 = 0.81, P < 0.001; Fig. 1c).”
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“We observed that the iAge gene signature was significantly associated with all-cause mortality following adjustment to multiple covariates associated with mortality, including age, sex, smoking, cholesterol levels, blood pressure, diabetes and existence of a cardiovascular disease (P = 0.02, Cox proportional hazards model, n = 2,290).”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > Lower inflammatory clock index in centenarians.
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- Not checked yetcites [36] Mahmood, S. S., Levy, D., Vasan, R. S. & Wang, T. J. The Framingham Heart Study and the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease: a historical perspective. Lancet 383, 999–1008 (2014). source
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- Rests on an assumption: The iAge gene expression signature derived from the Stanford cohort can serve as a proxy for iAge in the Framingham Heart Study cohort.
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“and TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL), IFN-γ, CXCL1, IL-2, transforming growth factor (TGF)-α, plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI)-1 and leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) (negative contributors).”
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“where the top 15 most variable Jacobians were CXCL9, EOTAXIN, Mip-1α, LEPTIN, IL-1β, IL-5, IFN-α and IL-4 (positive contributors)”
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“It is also noteworthy that when comparing tube formation, NO production and uptake of Ac-LDL in Scramble at passage 0 versus CXCL9-KD at passage 8, there is a statistically significant difference in all three metrics (P < 0.01).”
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“Notably, the contribution of iAge to frailty score was significantly stronger than that of calendar age (Fig. 1d).”
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“while at the same time showed impaired EC function as evident by decreased tube formation (Extended Data Fig. 8e,f).”
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“inflammatory components of the immune system are often chronically elevated in aged individuals and associated with an increased incidence of cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disorders and others1–3”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Abstract
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- Partly supportedcites [1] Kotas, M. E. & Medzhitov, R. Homeostasis, inflammation, and disease susceptibility. Cell 160, 816–827 (2015). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The “Inflammation and homeostatic circuits” section (page not supplied) links chronic inflammation to atherosclerosis and neurodegenerative diseases. It does not establish that inflammatory components are often chronically elevated in older people or link them to cancer incidence. (LLM, conf=0.86)
- Could not verifycites [2] Liu, F. et al. Mechanosignaling through YAP and TAZ drives fibroblast activation and fibrosis. Am. J. Physiol. Lung Cell Mol. Physiol. 308, L344–L357 (2015). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Abstract discusses fibrotic extracellular matrix and fibroblast activation, while the Results and Discussion address YAP/TAZ mechanosignaling in fibrosis; no page numbers are available in our copy. Searches for chronic immune inflammation in aging and its association with cancer, cardiovascular disease, or neurodegenerative disorders found no passage addressing the claim. (LLM, conf=0.75)
- Not checked yetcites [3] Crusz, S. M. & Balkwill, F. R. Inflammation and cancer: advances and new agents. Nat. Rev. Clin. Oncol. 12, 584–596 (2015). source
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“The average reconstruction errors on the test set for prediction of age and circulating immune protein data were 15.2 years and 0.26 (normalized), respectively.”
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“Overall, the GAE method utilized (a two-layer fully connected neural network with five nodes in each layer) outperformed other methods in predicting chronological age (cAge) (P < 0.05) with the exception of the classic neural network (P = 0.54) (Extended Data Fig. 3b).”
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“In addition, immune parameters such as total CD8+ T cells, plasmablasts, transitional B cells such as IgD+CD27− and IgD−CD27− B cells (negative predictors), effector CD8+ T cells, total lymphocytes, monocytes and central memory T cells (positive predictors) were predictive of multimorbidity (Extended Data Fig. 5d).”
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“CXCL9-KD showed a complete reversal of this early cellular senescence phenotype with upregulation of proliferative pathways and downregulation of inflammatory pathways when compared to Scramble hiPSC-ECs (Fig. 5c–e).”
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“In contrast, there were 77% (14 out of 18) of controls in the high rank versus 23% in the low rank group (Fig. 1e)”
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“In addition, IL-11Rα, CXCL10 and hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) increased with age, whereas CXCL1 and LIF decreased (Extended Data Fig. 7).”
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“Sixty-eight percent (13 out of 19) centenarians were in the low rank group (P = 0.028), whereas only 31% (6 out of 19) were in the high rank group.”
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“Not surprisingly, age was the strongest contributor to changes in naive CD8+ T cells followed by iAge, CMV (negative contributors) and sex (frequency of total CD8+ T cells in females was 24% versus 30% in males; Fig. 2a).”
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“Comparing ECs from older and younger individuals, we found that BECs from older patients showed reduced capacity to form networks of tubular structures (Extended Data Fig. 8b and Fig. 4b), reduced capacity to produce NO (Fig. 4c) and a reduced capacity to incorporate Ac-LDL (Fig. 4d).”
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“We observed a time-dependent increase in CXCL9 transcript levels up to ~fourfold at passage 8 compared to cells obtained from cultures at day 0 and a substantial reduction of CXCL9 expression in CXCL9-KD hiPSC-ECs (Fig. 5a).”
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“frequency of total CD8+ T cells in females was 24% versus 30% in males”
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“As early as passage 4, ECs lose their capacity to form tubes, which can be partially restored when CXCL9 is knocked down (Fig. 4e and Extended Data Fig. 10).”
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“Notably, there was a general decrease of B-cell and T-cell responses to stimuli and an overall potentiation of monocyte response associated with increasing iAge (combined P < 10−5; Fig. 2b).”
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“Fast gene set enrichment analysis (FGSEA) in aged cells revealed upregulation of genes in hallmark inflammatory pathways and downregulation of genes in hallmark cell proliferation pathways (Fig. 5b).”
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“Late-passaged iPSC-ECs failed to produce NO in response to acetylcholine or uptake Ac-LDL respectively, when compared to early passages of iPSC-ECs (Fig. 4f,g).”
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“we used fivefold cross validation to select the best hyper-parameter setting (depth = 2, guidance ratio = 0.2, L2 = 0.001) on all GAEs with a code length of 5.”
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“we demonstrate that iAge predicts multimorbidity and mortality”
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“we find that CXCL9 is mainly produced by aged endothelium and predicts subclinical levels of cardiovascular aging in nominally healthy individuals.”
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“After obtaining the best code length as 5 (Extended Data Fig. 3a)”
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“iAge is directly associated with multiple disease phenotypes, including cardiovascular aging, frailty, immune decline and exceptional longevity.”
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“In our case, this method outperformed other commonly used linear modeling methods such as Elastic Net and PCA and also other nonlinear approaches such as plain auto-encoder89 (Extended Data Fig. 3b).”
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“we find that iAge tracks with multiple diseases and immunosenescence.”
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“After obtaining the best code length as 5, we used the 5-fold-cross-validation to select the best hyper-parameter setting (depth = 2, guidance-ratio = 0.2, L2 = 0.001) on all GAE with code length 5.”
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“CXCR3 was not expressed in iPSC induced cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CM), Fibroblast, or iPSC.”
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“Representative images of capillary-like networks from scramble- and CXCL9-KD hiPSC-ECs show that CXCL9-KD hiPSC-ECs retain their capacity to form tubes even at later passages when compared to scramble that showed impaired tube formation towards later passages of hiPSC-ECs.”
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“The GAE method outperforms linear methods for protein data reconstruction and prediction of chronological age (b).”
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“Significant correlation between age and CXCL9 using univariate regression analysis.”
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“The Stanford 1000 Immunomes Project consist of 1001 ambulatory subjects age 8 to 96 (34% males, 66% females) recruited during the years 2007 to 2016 for a longitudinal study of aging and vaccination, and for an independent study of chronic fatigue syndrome from which only healthy controls were included.”
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“In our experiment, the best code length is 5 (a) as adding one more code (6) does not significantly improve the total loss (p = 0.18).”
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“In (c), we found that the predictive performance of gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT) has similar performance as PCA.”
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“Eighteen features are selected including inflammatory clock, high cholesterol and BMI (c) and immune parameters such as total CD8 (+) T cells, plasmablasts and transitional B cells (negative predictors) and IgD+CD27- and IgD-CD27-B cells, effector CD8 (+) T cells, total lymphocytes and monocytes, and central memory T cells (positive predictors) (d)”
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“Data normalization and batch correction removes batch effect as indicated by lower mean absolute Spearman correlation between all features and batch id (blue line), which indicates impossibility to distinguish sample source from corrected data.”
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“However, it is highly expressed in iPSC induced endothelial cells and Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells (HUVEC).”
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“Due to the stochastic nature of LASSO regression, each implementation produced a slightly different list of genes that were predictive of iAge.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Methods > Selecting the most important genes predictive of iAge.
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“Multimorbidity is the number one priority for global health research and has become the gold standard in aging research as it represents the accumulation of physiological damage in an individual33.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > iAge predicts multimorbidity and frailty.
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- Not checked yetcites [33] Barnett, K. et al. Epidemiology of multimorbidity and implications for health care, research, and medical education: a cross-sectional study. Lancet 380, 37–43 (2012). source
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“Despite the importance of this type of inflammatory reaction, there are currently no standard biomarkers to characterize a chronic inflammatory state and studies have generally yielded conflicting results18,19.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites [18] Franceschi, C., Garagnani, P., Vitale, G., Capri, M. & Salvioli, S. Inflammaging and garb-aging. Trends Endocrinol. Metab. 28, 199–212 (2017). source
- Not checked yetcites [19] Morrisette-Thomas, V. et al. Inflamm-aging does not simply reflect increases in pro-inflammatory markers. Mechanisms Ageing Dev. 139, 49–57 (2014). source
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“For these analyses, we controlled for age, body mass index (BMI), sex, CMV and high cholesterol (also a binary category), because of the reported effect of each of these variables in the etiology of age-related pathologies.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > iAge predicts multimorbidity and frailty.
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“We employed fivefold cross validation and measured the predictive performances of each method on the test set.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > Deep-learning analysis of circulating immune biomarkers.
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“Recent work from our group identified a cellular composite metric for immune aging (IMM-AGE), which was strongly associated with all-cause mortality16.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites [16] Alpert, A. et al. A clinically meaningful metric of immune age derived from high-dimensional longitudinal monitoring. Nat. Med. 25, 487–495 (2019). source
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“For all samples of the Stanford 1KIP, deep immune phenotyping was conducted at the Stanford HIMC, where peripheral blood specimens were processed and analyzed using rigorously standardized procedures31.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > Study design of the Stanford 1000 Immunomes project.
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- Not checked yetcites [31] Maecker, H. T. et al. New tools for classification and monitoring of autoimmune diseases. Nat. Rev. Rheumatol. 8, 317–328 (2012). source
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“This type of inflammation is associated with aging and is characterized by being low-grade and persistent, ultimately leading to collateral damage to tissues and organs1,17.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites [1] Kotas, M. E. & Medzhitov, R. Homeostasis, inflammation, and disease susceptibility. Cell 160, 816–827 (2015). source
- Not checked yetcites [17] Goldberg, E. L. & Dixit, V. D. Drivers of age-related inflammation and strategies for healthspan extension. Immunol. Rev. 265, 63–74 (2015). source
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“This suggests that while knockdown of CXCL9 rescues endothelial dysfunction by passage 8, it cannot restore EC function completely to the level of healthy ECs at passage 0.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > Inhibition of CXCL9 rescues endothelial cell dysfunction.
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“Taken together these results demonstrate that CXCL9 has a profound effect in the cardiovascular system and indicates a new role for this chemokine in angiogenesis and EC function during cardiovascular aging.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > Inhibition of CXCL9 rescues endothelial cell dysfunction.
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“selected from a total of 151 recruited participants using strict selection criteria (Methods).”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > CXCL9 is an important component of iAge and correlates with cardiovascular aging in healthy adults.
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“Canonical acute inflammation proteins such as C-reactive protein and interleukin (IL)-6 have been associated with immunosenescence in previous studies37,38, but the relationship with systemic chronic inflammation (SCI) has not yet been established.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > iAge is correlated with immunosenescence.
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- Not checked yetcites [37] Bertsch, T. et al. C-reactive protein and the acute phase reaction in geriatric patients. Z. Gerontologie Geriatr. 48, 595–600 (2015). source
- Not checked yetcites [38] Scheller, J., Chalaris, A., Schmidt-Arras, D. & Rose-John, S. The pro- and anti-inflammatory properties of the cytokine interleukin-6. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1813, 878–888 (2011). source
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“As high RWT indicates concentric cardiac remodeling and elevated PWV is reflective of organ damage and predicts future cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality better than conventional cardiovascular disease risk factors45–47”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > CXCL9 is an important component of iAge and correlates with cardiovascular aging in healthy adults.
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- Not checked yetcites [45] Vlachopoulos, C., Aznaouridis, K. & Stefanadis, C. Prediction of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality with arterial stiffness: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 55, 1318–1327 (2010). source
- Not checked yetcites [46] Ben-Shlomo, Y. et al. Aortic pulse wave velocity improves cardiovascular event prediction: an individual participant meta-analysis of prospective observational data from 17,635 subjects. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 63, 636–646 (2014). source
- Not checked yetcites [47] Chirinos, J. A. Large artery stiffness, microvascular function, and cardiovascular risk. Circ. Cardiovasc Imaging 9, e005903 (2016). source
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“we used a well-established model for endothelial aging57,58 by generating human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) from fibroblasts obtained from five independent human donors59 and subsequently differentiated them into endothelial cells (hiPSC-ECs)60.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > Inhibition of CXCL9 rescues endothelial cell dysfunction.
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- Not checked yetcites [57] Boisen, L., Drasbek, K. R., Pedersen, A. S. & Kristensen, P. Evaluation of endothelial cell culture as a model system of vascular ageing. Exp. Gerontol. 45, 779–787 (2010). source
- Not checked yetcites [58] Brandes, R. P., Fleming, I. & Busse, R. Endothelial aging. Cardiovascular Res. 66, 286–294 (2005). source
- Not checked yetcites [59] Takahashi, K. & Yamanaka, S. Induction of pluripotent stem cells from mouse embryonic and adult fibroblast cultures by defined factors. Cell 126, 663–676 (2006). source
- Not checked yetcites [60] Sayed, N. et al. Clinical trial in a dish using iPSCs shows lovastatin improves endothelial dysfunction and cellular cross-talk in LMNA cardiomyopathy. Sci. Transl. Med. 12, eaax9276 (2020). source
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“These results demonstrate that iAge correlates with an established biomarker of immune senescence (naive CD8+ T-cell frequency) and with PBMC signaling responses in vitro.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > iAge is correlated with immunosenescence.
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“We conducted multiple regression analysis controlling age, CMV and sex (Methods).”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > iAge is correlated with immunosenescence.
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“These results demonstrate a concomitant increase in CXCL9 in the endothelia and EC dysfunction associated with aging both in humans and mice.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > CXCL9 increases with age in human blood endothelial cells.
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“Long-standing evidence has suggested a role for the endothelium in the etiology of hypertension and arterial stiffness48,49.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > CXCL9 increases with age in human blood endothelial cells.
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- Not checked yetcites [48] Figueiredo, V. N. et al. Vascular stiffness and endothelial dysfunction: correlations at different levels of blood pressure. Blood Press. 21, 31–38 (2012). source
- Not checked yetcites [49] Vanhoutte, P. M., Feletou, M. & Taddei, S. Endothelium-dependent contractions in hypertension. Br. J. Pharmacol. 144, 449–458 (2005). source
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“We then performed multiple regression hierarchical analysis using the six selected inflammatory markers associated with aging in this cohort and cardiovascular measurements (PWV and RWT) controlling for age, sex, BMI, heart rate, systolic blood pressure, fasting glucose and total cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein (HDL) ratio.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > CXCL9 is an important component of iAge and correlates with cardiovascular aging in healthy adults.
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“More recent work has also shown that advanced signs of cardiovascular aging such as tissue remodeling and cardiac hypertrophy are often preceded and may be initiated by the malfunctioning of aged endothelia50–52.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > CXCL9 increases with age in human blood endothelial cells.
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- Not checked yetcites [50] Castellon, X. & Bogdanova, V. Chronic inflammatory diseases and endothelial dysfunction. Aging Dis. 7, 81–89 (2016). source
- Not checked yetcites [51] Harvey, A., Montezano, A. C. & Touyz, R. M. Vascular biology of ageing: implications in hypertension. J. Mol. Cell Cardiol. 83, 112–121 (2015). source
- Not checked yetcites [52] Kamo, T., Akazawa, H. & Komuro, I. Cardiac nonmyocytes in the hub of cardiac hypertrophy. Circ. Res. 117, 89–98 (2015). source
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“At least two sources of CXCL9-mediated inflammation can ensue with aging based on our findings; one that is age-intrinsic and observed in aging ECs and one that is independent of age (likely as a response to cumulative exposure to environmental insults) and found in the validation cohort of 97 apparently healthy adults.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Discussion
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“These iPSCs were differentiated into cardiomyocytes to purities of >85% and ECs to purities of >90%.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Methods > Induced human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells.
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“This study was conducted in accordance with current relevant ethical regulations on human participant research. Written informed consent was obtained from all the study cohorts used and the study protocol was approved by the Stanford University Administrative Panels on Human Subjects in Medical Research, Institutional Review Board.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Methods > Ethics declaration.
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“Notably, CXCL9 has also been shown to be associated with falls in the older population101,102”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [101] Amorim, J. S. C. et al. Inflammatory markers and occurrence of falls: Bambui cohort study of aging. Rev. Saude Publica 53, 35 (2019). source
- Not checked yetcites [102] Chiu, B. C. et al. Differential effects of ageing on cytokine and chemokine responses during type-1 (mycobacterial) and type-2 (schistosomal) pulmonary granulomatous inflammation in mice. Mech. Ageing Dev. 123, 313–326 (2002). source
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“we hypothesize that this chemokine acts both in a paracrine fashion (when it is produced by macrophages to attract T cells to the site of injury) and in an autocrine fashion (when it is produced by the endothelium) creating a positive feedback loop.”
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“they also suggest that ECs may be one source of inflammation”
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“while the stimuli we used strongly activate the memory compartment of bulk CD8+ and CD4+ T cells, these act relatively weakly on naive T cells.”
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“one limitation of the assay relates to the stimuli used here which may not completely mirror the physiological stimuli that act on specific immune cell subsets in vivo.”
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“All parameters were measured in triplicate and averaged.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Methods > Cardiovascular phenotyping.
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“The lack of angiogenesis, impaired production of NO and dysfunctional uptake of Ac-LDL indirectly suggested a cellular senescence phenotype that could be rescued by knocking down CXCL9 as iPSC-EC is passaged.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > Age-related elevation in CXCL9 leads to endothelial cell senescence.
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“All studies were interpreted by one physician (F.H.) who was blinded to age as well as clinical and biological data.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Methods > Cardiovascular phenotyping.
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“Some studies in humans have found CXCL9 to increase with age93–98”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [93] Bonfante, H. L. et al. CCL2, CXCL8, CXCL9 and CXCL10 serum levels increase with age but are not altered by treatment with hydroxychloroquine in patients with osteoarthritis of the knees. Int J. Rheum. Dis. 20, 1958–1964 (2017). source
- Not checked yetcites [94] Roubenoff, R. et al. Monocyte cytokine production in an elderly population: effect of age and inflammation. J. Gerontol. A Biol. Sci. Med Sci. 53, M20–M26 (1998). source
- Not checked yetcites [95] Torres, K. C. L. et al. Immune senescence and biomarkers profile of Bambui aged population-based cohort. Exp. Gerontol. 103, 47–56 (2018). source
- Not checked yetcites [96] Shurin, G. V. et al. Dynamic alteration of soluble serum biomarkers in healthy aging. Cytokine 39, 123–129 (2007). source
- Not checked yetcites [97] Zheng, Y. et al. Age-related pro-inflammatory and pro-angiogenic changes in human aqueous humor. Int J. Ophthalmol. 11, 196–200 (2018).
- Not checked yetcites [98] Sandovici, I. et al. Ageing is associated with molecular signatures of inflammation and type 2 diabetes in rat pancreatic islets. Diabetologia 59, 502–511 (2016). source
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“Inter-observer variability was calculated on 50 samples in our laboratory and the intraclass correlation coefficient was 0.94 for PWV measured by two independent observers”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Methods > Cardiovascular phenotyping.
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“All PCR reactions were performed in triplicate, normalized to the GAPDH endogenous control gene and assessed using the comparative Ct method.”
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“We thus hypothesize that one root cause of CXCL9 overproduction is cellular aging per se, which can trigger metabolic dysfunction”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Discussion
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“Any monotonic transformation of cAge or iAge does not affect ranks, hence findings are robust to transformations such as log and exp.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Methods > Extraction of an inflammatory clock.
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“We derived iPSCs from five healthy individuals and cell lines passed common assessments for pluripotency such as expression of pluripotent markers (Oct4 and Nanog) and genomic stability such as karyotyping.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Methods > Induced human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells.
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“Despite the proven utility of cytokine stimulation assays used in our study with respect to an individual’s overall immune competence5,24,25”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Furman, D. et al. Expression of specific inflammasome gene modules stratifies older individuals into two extreme clinical and immunological states. Nat. Med. 23, 174–184 (2017). source
- Not checked yetcites [24] Furman, D. et al. Apoptosis and other immune biomarkers predict influenza vaccine responsiveness. Mol. Syst. Biol. 9, 659 (2013). source
- Not checked yetcites [25] Furman, D. et al. Cytomegalovirus infection enhances the immune response to influenza. Sci. Transl. Med. 7, 281ra43 (2015). source
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“which is lower than that of the recently reported ‘proteomic age’ metric (R = 0.92)90.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [90] Tanaka, T. et al. Plasma proteomic signature of age in healthy humans. Aging Cell. 17, e12799 (2018). source
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“These results demonstrate a central role for CXCL9 in vascular dysfunction, which likely contributes to arterial stiffness and premature aging in vivo.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Results > CXCL9 impairs vascular function and contributes to arterial stiffness.
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“we demonstrate that CXCL9 is a master regulator of vascular function and cellular senescence”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Discussion
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“inflammatory markers have been shown to be, at least in part, responsible for a reduced JAK–STAT response to cytokine stimulations in various leukocyte populations in our previous studies of aging28.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Discussion
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [28] Shen-Orr Shai, S. et al. Defective signaling in the JAK–STAT pathway tracks with chronic inflammation and cardiovascular risk in aging humans. Cell Syst. 3, 374–384 (2016). source
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“previous reports showing that high levels of baseline inflammatory markers correlate with weaker responses to hepatitis B and herpes zoster vaccine formulations15,91.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [15] Thevaranjan, N. et al. Age-associated microbial dysbiosis promotes intestinal permeability, systemic inflammation, and macrophage dysfunction. Cell Host Microbe 21, 455–466 (2017). source
- Not checked yetcites [91] Fourati, S. et al. Pre-vaccination inflammation and B-cell signalling predict age-related hyporesponse to hepatitis B vaccination. Nat. Commun. 7, 10369 (2016). source
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“In this model, increasing doses of CXCL9 and expression of its receptor in these cells leads to cumulative deterioration of endothelial function in aging.”
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“Experiment was repeated 3 times.”
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“No randomization or blinding was conducted for this study.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Methods > Statistics and reproducibility.
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“PRIN06 and PRIN09 samples were measured in two batches. Datasets were bridged to each other using SomaLogic calibrators.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Methods > SOMAscan assay.
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“We used 5-fold cross-validation to identify the best code length, among lengths from 1 to 10.”
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“Within each fold we performed nested 3-fold cross-validation to select hyper-parameters (depth, weight decay and guidance-ratio).”
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“For our experiments, no statistical method was used to predetermine sample size.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Methods > Statistics and reproducibility.
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“For the cardiovascular study the data were interpreted by one physician (F.H.) who was blinded to age as well as clinical and biological data.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Methods > Statistics and reproducibility.
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“In a validation study, 97 healthy adults (aged 25–90) well matched for cardiovascular risk factors, were selected from a total of 151 recruited subjects.”
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“By applying differential penalty values for each regressor, age variable is ‘forced in’, while imposing a stringent penalty (the lasso penalty) to all other features, so that selected variables do not correlate with age.”
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“Covariates such as age, BMI, detection of CMV and sex were controlled by their inclusion in all regression analysis.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Methods > Statistics and reproducibility.
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“Data in relative fluorescent units for 1,305 SOMAmer probes were obtained for these samples and no samples or probe data were excluded.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Methods > SOMAscan assay.
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“Immune protein data from serum samples were subjected to normalization and batch correction procedures (See Methods) to ensure data from different sources can be combined and used as a whole.”
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“To select for predictors of comorbidity without bias, based on available data for all 902 subjects while controlling for the age effect, age-adjusted cross-validation was performed (a).”
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“Blinding was not performed in mice experiments.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Methods > Statistics and reproducibility.
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“Auto-encoders use a nonlinear transformation of data and hence, can model complex processes119.”
§ An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging > Methods > Guided auto-encoder and the inflammatory clock.
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- Not checked yetcites [119] Behzadi-Khormouji, H. et al. Deep learning, reusable and problem-based architectures for detection of consolidation on chest X-ray images. Comput. Methods Prog. Biomed. 185, 105162 (2020). source
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“No data were excluded from the analyses.”
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The iAge gene expression signature derived from the Stanford cohort can serve as a proxy for iAge in the Framingham Heart Study cohort.
“As there were no sufficient proteomics data to directly estimate iAge in the cohort, we derived a gene expression signature of iAge using available data from 397 participants in our study and performed an enrichment analysis of the derived gene signature on each sample in the Framingham Heart Study (Methods).”
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CXCL9 attracts T cells, is induced by IFN-γ, and is primarily secreted by neutrophils, macrophages, and endothelial cells.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sayed, N., Huang, Y., Nguyen, K., Krejciova-Rajaniemi, Z., Grawe, A. P., Gao, T., Tibshirani, R., Hastie, T., Alpert, A., Cui, L., Kuznetsova, T., Rosenberg-Hasson, Y., Ostan, R., Monti, D., Lehallier, B., Shen-Orr, S. S., Maecker, H. T., Dekker, C. L., Wyss-Coray, T., Franceschi, C., Jojic, V., Haddad, F., Montoya, J. G., Wu, J. C., Davis, M. M., & Furman, D.
- Affiliations
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Buck Institute for Research on Aging (US)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (IL)
- KU Leuven (BE)
- University of Bologna (IT)
- University of Florence (IT)
- N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (RU)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Furman, David
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Aging
- Published
- 2021-07-12
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 598-615
- ISSN
- 2662-8465 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC8654267
- OpenAlex
- W3182997864
- Semantic Scholar
- 367ef4249a61343109670699611b8d663e163fe7
- Cited by
- 572
- References
- 124
- Citations by year
- 2026: 118 · 2025: 117 · 2024: 159 · 2023: 86 · 2022: 71 · 2021: 21
- FWCI
- 31.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2021-07-26)
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature Aging (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Lirias (KU Leuven) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion)
- Florence Research (University of Florence) (submittedVersion)
- UNC Libraries
- Funders
- Glenn Foundation for Medical Research
- European Commission
- Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
- National Institutes of Health (UL1TR003142)
- National Institute on Aging (P50AG047366, P30AG059307, P30AG066515)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (K01HL135455)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U19AI090019, U19AI057229)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (P30DK116074)
- National Center for Research Resources (UL1RR025744)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Aging › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Geriatrics and Gerontology › Frailty in Older Adults
- Keywords
- age-related inflammation, multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty, cardiovascular aging, centenarians, longevity, CXCL9, chemokines, endothelial cell senescence, arterial stiffness, cardiac remodeling, vascular function, deep learning
- MeSH terms
- Immunosenescence, Frailty, Multimorbidity, Deep Learning, Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Animals, Humans, Inflammation, Endothelial Cells, Mice
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