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Aging leads to dysfunctional innate immune responses to TLR2 and TLR4 agonists.

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BACKGROUND:Sepsis is more common in the elderly. TNF⍺ is recognized as an important mediator in sepsis and Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play an important role in initiating signaling cascades to produce TNF⍺. Little is known about how innate immunity is altered in healthy human aging that predisposes to sepsis. AIMS AND METHODS:We tested the hypothesis that aging dysregulates the innate immune response to TLR 2 and 4 ligands. We performed whole blood assays on 554 healthy subjects aged 40-80 years. TNFα production was measured at baseline and after stimulation with the TLR2 agonists: peptidoglycan, lipoteichoic acid, Pam3CysK, Zymosan A and the TLR4 agonist lipopolysaccharide (LPS). In a subset of subjects (n = 250), we measured Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2, 4 and MyD88 expression using real-time PCR. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION:We measured a 2.5% increase per year in basal secretion of TNFα with aging (n = 554 p = 0.02). Likewise, TNFα secretion was increased with aging after stimulation with peptidoglycan (1.3% increase/year; p = 0.0005) and zymosan A (1.1% increase/year p = 0.03). We also examined the difference between baseline and stimulated TNFα for each individual. We found that the increase was driven by the elevated baseline levels. In fact, there was a diminished stimulated response to LPS (1.9% decrease/year; p = 0.05), lipoteichoic acid (2.1% decrease/year p = 0.03), and Pam3CysK (2.6% decrease/year p = 0.0007). There were no differences in TLR or MyD88 mRNA expression with aging, however, there was an inverse relationship between TLR expression and stimulated TNFα production. CONCLUSIONS:With aging, circulating leukocytes produce high levels of TNFα at baseline and have inadequate responses to TLR2 and TLR4 agonists. These defects likely contribute to the increased susceptibility to sepsis in older adults.

journal_name

Aging Clin Exp Res

journal_title

Aging clinical and experimental research

authors

Bailey KL,Smith LM,Heires AJ,Katafiasz DM,Romberger DJ,LeVan TD

doi

10.1007/s40520-018-1064-0

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-09-01 00:00:00

pages

1185-1193

issue

eissn

1594-0667

issn

1720-8319

pii

10.1007/s40520-018-1064-0

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Aging leads to dysfunctional innate immune responses to TLR2 and TLR4 agonists.