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Age-Associated Remodeling of Neural and Nonneural Thymic Catecholaminergic Network Affects Thymopoietic Productivity

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2011
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Leposavić, Gordana
Pilipović, Ivan
Perišić, Milica
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Abstract
Ageing is associated with a progressive decline in thymic cytoarchitecture followed by a less efficient T cell development and decreased emigration of naive T cells to the periphery. These thymic changes are linked to increased morbidity and mortality from infectious, malignant and autoimmune diseases in old age. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to understand the thymic homeostatic processes across the life span, as well as to identify factors and elucidate mechanisms driving or contributing to the thymic involution. Catecholamines (CAs) derived from sympathetic nerves and produced locally by thymic cells represent an important component of the thymic microenvironment. In young rats, they provide a subtle tonic suppressive influence on T cell development acting via beta(2)- and alpha(1)-adrenoceptors (ARs) expressed on thymic nonlymphoid cells and thymocytes. In the face of thymic involution, a progressive increase in the thymic noradrenaline level, reflecting a rise in the den...sity of noradrenergic nerve fibers and CA-synthesizing cells, occurs. In addition, the density of beta(2)- and alpha(1)-AR-expressing thymic nonlymphoid cells and the alpha(1)-AR thymocyte surface density also exhibit a pronounced increase with age. The data obtained from studies investigating effects of AR blockade on T cell development indicated that age-related changes in CA-mediated thymic communications, certainly those involving alpha(1)-ARs, may contribute to diminished thymopoietic efficiency in the elderly. Having in mind thymic plasticity in the course of ageing, and broadening possibilities for pharmacological modulation of CA signaling, we here present and discuss the progress in research related to a role of CAs in thymic homeostasis and age-related decay in the thymic naive T cell output. Copyright

Keywords:
Ageing / Catecholamines / alpha-Adrenoceptors / beta-Adrenoceptors / Thymopoiesis
Source:
NeuroImmunoModulation, 2011, 18, 5, 290-308
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  • Karger, Basel
Projects:
  • Neuroendokrina modulacija imunskog odgovora: uloga simpato-adrenomedularnog sistema (RS-145049)

DOI: 10.1159/000329499

ISSN: 1021-7401

PubMed: 21952681

WoS: 000295162000005

Scopus: 2-s2.0-80053343336
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