Suppression of Inflammatory Signaling as a Treatment for Frailty

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/12/suppression-of-inflammatory-signaling-as-a-treatment-for-frailty/

Age-related frailty is accompanied by marked chronic inflammation, and indeed much of the physical weakness of frailty is likely caused by long-term inflammation and the ways in which it disrupts muscle tissue maintenance. The tools presently available to suppress inflammation are somewhat blunt, interfering in the necessary signaling needed to maintain a normal immune response, as well as in the unwanted overactivation of the immune system found in older people. Nonetheless, such tools are slowly becoming better and more selective over time, and some are now being tested as treatments for frailty.

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