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NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
Volume 75, Issue -, Pages 114-128Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.01.044
Keywords
Aging; Brain; Immunosenescence; Inflanimaging; Neuroplasticity; Neuroinflammation; Cytokines; T cells; Microglia; Neurotrophic factors; Cognition; Physical exercise; Cognitive intervention
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- Max Planck Society
- Croeni Foundation
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It is widely accepted that the brain and the immune system continuously interact during normal as well as pathological functioning. Human aging is commonly accompanied by low-grade inflammation in both the immune and central, nervous systems, thought to contribute to many age-related diseases. This review of the current literature focuses first on the normal neuroimmune interactions occurring in the brain, which promote learning, memory and neuroplasticity. Further, we discuss the protective and dynamic role of barriers to neuroimmune interactions, which have become clearer with the recent discovery of the meningeal lymphatic system. Next, we consider age-related changes of the immune system and possible deleterious influences of immunosenescence and low-grade inflammation (inflammaging) on neurodegenerative processes in the normally aging brain. We survey the major immunomodulators and neuroregulators in the aging brain and their highly tuned dynamic and reciprocal interactions. Finally, we consider our current understanding of how physical activity, as well as a combination of physical and cognitive interventions, may mediate anti-inflammatory effects and thus positively impact brain aging. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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