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ArticleeLife2023

Single-cell analysis of the aged ovarian immune system reveals a shift towards adaptive immunity and attenuated cell function.

Tal Ben Yaakov, Tanya Wasserman, Eliel Aknin, Yonatan Savir

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Article in eLife, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tal Ben YaakovDepartment of Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.ORCID 0009-0005-0550-2901
Tanya WassermanDepartment of Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-0221-1891
Eliel AkninDepartment of Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Yonatan SavirDepartment of Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-5345-8491
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology · IL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The immune system plays a major role in maintaining many physiological processes in the reproductive system. However, a complete characterization of the immune milieu in the ovary, and particularly how it is affected by female aging, is still lacking. Here, we utilize single-cell RNA sequencing and flow cytometry to construct the complete description of the murine ovarian immune system. We show that the composition of the immune cells undergoes an extensive shift with age towards adaptive immunity. We analyze the effect of aging on gene expression and chemokine and cytokine networks and show an overall decreased expression of inflammatory mediators together with an increased expression of senescent cells recognition receptors. Our results suggest that the fertile female's ovarian immune aging differs from the suggested female post-menopause inflammaging as it copes with the inflammatory stimulations during repeated cycles and the increasing need for clearance of accumulating atretic follicles.

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Ovarian FollicleOvaryAdaptive ImmunityAgingAnimalsFemaleImmune SystemMiceSingle-Cell Analysisagingcomputational biologyimmune systemimmunologyinflammationmouseovarysingle-cell sequencingsystems agingsystems biology

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