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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Determination of aging phenotype based on the changes in spontaneous and induced interleukin-6 and interleukin-10 production in vitro

Grechenko VV, Gromova TV, Ogurtsova AD, Muradyan TG, Zhuravleva ER, Gankovskaya LV
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Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Tatiana V. Gromova
Ostrovityanova, 1, stroenie 9, Moscow, 117997; moc.liamg@avohsavelvt

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Funding: the study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 23-15-00137, https://rscf.ru/project/23-15-00137.

Acknowledgements: to O.N. Tkacheva, Head of the Russian Gerontological Research and Clinical Center, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, for the provided biomaterial samples of the group of centenarians; executives of the Diagnostic Clinical Center No. 1, Obruchevsky Social House, branch of the Troparyovo Geriatric Center, for the provided biomaterial samples of patients of older age groups.

Author contribution: Gankovskaya LV — research management and study planning; Grechenko VV, Gromova TV, Ogurtsova AD, Zhuravleva ER — data acquisition, processing, and analysis; Grechenko VV — statistical processing, Muradyan TG — selection of clinical groups; Grechenko VV, Gromova TV, Gankovskaya LV — manuscript writing; Ogurtsova AD — editing.

Compliance with ethical standards: the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (protocol No. 214 dated 13 December 2021). The subjects submitted the informed consent to participation in the study and the consent to data processing.

Received: 2025-08-03 Accepted: 2025-08-20 Published online: 2025-08-30
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During the aging the immune system alterations are accompanied by developing the systemic, sterile inflammation: inflammaging. Successful and pathological aging phenotypes are distinguished. Inflammaging severity depends largely on the ratio of pro- and anti-inflammatory mediators, especially IL6 and IL10. The study aimed to conduct the analysis of IL6 and IL10 production in the cultures of the patients’ peripheral blood mononuclear cells (MNCs) as a possible approach to determining the aging phenotype. The data of elderly patients (n = 80), senile patients (n = 100), and centenarians (n = 30) were included in the study. Among those the groups were allocated with the successful and pathological phenotypes, along with the comparison group (young adults). The stimulation coefficient (SC) was assessed based on the ratio of the levels of stimulated and induced cytokine production. For the successful phenotype in elderly and senile individuals, as well as centenarians, a decrease in the IL6 SC to 5.3 [2.2–14.3] (p < 0.01), 5.3 [3.01–7.8] (p < 0.01), 6.5 [5.2–14.1], respectively, was reported, against the comparison group, where the value was 17.6 [13.7–31.1] (p < 0.05). With the pathological phenotype, the IL6 SC values of the studied age group showed no significant differences from that of the comparison group. For the successful phenotype in senile individuals, the increase in the IL10 SC to 6.9 [3.8–13.8] relative to the values of the group with the pathological phenotype — 3.3 [2.0–5.9] (p < 0.01) and the comparison group — 2.0 [1.9–2.2] (p < 0.001) was reported. In the group of centenarians with the pathological phenotype, there was a significant increase in the IL10 SC (11.2 [5.4–18.1] vs 2.7 [2.3–6.5] p < 0.001) in the group with successful aging, which can indicate the pronounced compensatory anti-inflammatory reserve being a factor of survival and long life in the context of the presence of a large number of age-related disorders in this group.

Keywords: cytokines, cell culture, inflammaging, aging phenotype, markers of aging

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