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Despite extensive clinical and experimental evidence linking neuroinflammation to aging, the molecular players that control age-associated neuroinflammatory responses in the brain are not fully understood. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS), proteomics, and transcriptomic datasets have revealed that Asrij\/OCIAD1 is a novel aging and Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD)-associated factor. Asrij levels are increased in patients with AD and are known to promote amyloid-beta (A\u03b2) pathology and microglia-mediated neuroinflammation, which are associated with cognitive dysfunction in AD. Increased levels of Asrij are also reported in the brains of aged wild-type (WT) mice; however, whether this may promote neuroinflammation or be a protective response during aging is not known. To test this, we used young and aged WT and <jats:italic>asrij<\/jats:italic> KO mice and showed that normal aging is associated with increased microgliosis and astrocyte activation in WT mice. While young <jats:italic>asrij<\/jats:italic> KO mice do not display any differences in glial activation, aged KO mice have reduced microglial and astrocytic activation compared to aged WT mice. This is accompanied by reduced levels of pro-inflammatory mediators and downregulation of STAT3 and NF-\u03baB signaling in the cortex and hippocampus of aged <jats:italic>asrij<\/jats:italic> KO mice. Additionally, <jats:italic>asrij<\/jats:italic> depletion inhibits LPS-induced microglial activation and neuroinflammation in aged mice. This indicates that Asrij is essential for the neuroinflammatory responses in the brains of aged mice. 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