Sex differences in the outcomes of modifiable lifestyle factors for cognitive aging: neuroinflammation and microglia as key underlying mechanisms
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Microglia are the resident immune cells of the brain. Over the past two decades, they have been shown to play critical roles throughout life. Microglia are now considered to be important for brain formation, maturation, activity and plasticity, with outcomes on behavior and other cognitive domains. With this knowledge, microglia represent a promising therapeutic target to promote brain health along an aging trajectory. Emerging evidence also indicates that modifiable lifestyle factors for cognitive aging can influence the brain and behavior by acting on microglia. The mechanisms identified so far involve their roles in synaptic plasticity, axonal myelination, and adult neurogenesis, exerted through the modulation of brain inflammation ('neuroinflammation'), the release of trophic factors, and phagocytosis. In this mini-review, we will cover the outcomes of exercise, diet. and social isolation on microglial functions during aging. Sex differences in the identified outcomes on cognitive aging and the underlying mechanisms will be highlighted. Our goal with this mini-review is to stimulate further research on this important topic.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".