Exploring the relevance of senotherapeutics for the current SARS-CoV-2 emergency and similar future global health threats

M Malavolta, R Giacconi, D Brunetti, M Provinciali… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The higher death rate caused by COVID-19 in older people, especially those with
comorbidities, is a challenge for biomedical aging research. Here we explore the idea that …

Cellular senescence as a potential mediator of COVID‐19 severity in the elderly

J Nehme, M Borghesan, S Mackedenski, TG Bird… - Aging cell, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
SARS‐CoV‐2 is a novel betacoronavirus which infects the lower respiratory tract and can
cause coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), a complex respiratory distress syndrome …

COVID‐19 is an emergent disease of aging

D Santesmasses, JP Castro, AA Zenin… - Aging cell, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
COVID‐19 is an ongoing pandemic caused by the SARS‐CoV‐2 coronavirus that poses one
of the greatest challenges to public health in recent years. SARS‐CoV‐2 is known to …

COVID-19 and crosstalk with the hallmarks of aging

S Salimi, JM Hamlyn - The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Within the past several decades, the emergence of new viral diseases with severe health
complications and mortality is evidence of an age-dependent, compromised bodily response …

COVID-19 therapeutics: Challenges and directions for the future

PC Robinson, DFL Liew, HL Tanner… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 triggering the COVID-19 pandemic ranks as arguably the
greatest medical emergency of the last century. COVID-19 has highlighted health disparities …

[HTML][HTML] Why does COVID-19 disproportionately affect older people?

AL Mueller, MS McNamara, DA Sinclair - Aging (albany NY), 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The severity and outcome of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) largely depends on a
patient's age. Adults over 65 years of age represent 80% of hospitalizations and have a 23 …

Treatment with the senolytics dasatinib/quercetin reduces SARS‐CoV‐2‐related mortality in mice

A Pastor‐Fernández, AR Bertos, A Sierra‐Ramírez… - Aging …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The enormous societal impact of the ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic has been particularly
harsh for some social groups, such as the elderly. Recently, it has been suggested that …

Emerging therapeutic approaches to combat COVID-19: present status and future perspectives

K Vivekanandhan, P Shanmugam… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has emerged as a fast-paced epidemic in late 2019 which
is disrupting life-saving immunization services. SARS-CoV-2 is a highly transmissible virus …

COVID-19 and cellular senescence

CA Schmitt, T Tchkonia, LJ Niedernhofer… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The clinical severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is largely determined by host
factors. Recent advances point to cellular senescence, an ageing-related switch in cellular …

Tackling SARS-CoV-2: proposed targets and repurposed drugs

S Joshi, M Joshi, MS Degani - Future medicinal chemistry, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, declared as a global health emergency by the WHO in
February 2020, has currently infected more than 6 million people with fatalities near 371,000 …