Which endogenous retroviruses could induce chronic inflammation?

The most pervasive marker of aging is a high rate of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-1, IL-6, TNF-alpha), and therefore aging comes with low-level chronic inflammation without any clear presence of foreign pathogens as microbes or viruses.

Many scientists propose a lot of possible explanations for this phenomenon including reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced naturally during cellular respiration or cellular “junk” accumulated inside cells when proteins are not processed properly and become a burden for their parent…