Spatial mapping of cellular senescence: emerging challenges and opportunities

AU Gurkar, AA Gerencser, AL Mora, AC Nelson… - Nature aging, 2023 - nature.com
Cellular senescence is a well-established driver of aging and age-related diseases. There
are many challenges to mapping senescent cells in tissues such as the absence of specific …

[HTML][HTML] Noncancerous disease-targeting AIEgens

Y Duo, G Luo, W Zhang, R Wang, GG Xiao… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Noncancerous diseases include a wide plethora of medical conditions beyond cancer and
are a major cause of mortality around the world. Despite progresses in clinical research …

Characterization of cellular senescence in aging skeletal muscle

X Zhang, L Habiballa, Z Aversa, YE Ng, AE Sakamoto… - Nature Aging, 2022 - nature.com
Senescence is a cell fate that contributes to multiple aging-related pathologies. Despite
profound age-associated changes in skeletal muscle (SkM), whether its constituent cells are …

[HTML][HTML] Compromised nuclear envelope integrity drives TREX1-dependent DNA damage and tumor cell invasion

GP de Freitas Nader, S Agüera-Gonzalez, F Routet… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Although mutations leading to a compromised nuclear envelope cause diseases such as
muscular dystrophies or accelerated aging, the consequences of mechanically induced …

Obesity and hyperinsulinemia drive adipocytes to activate a cell cycle program and senesce

Q Li, CE Hagberg, H Silva Cascales, S Lang… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Obesity is considered an important factor for many chronic diseases, including diabetes,
cardiovascular disease and cancer. The expansion of adipose tissue in obesity is due to an …

Senolytic drugs: reducing senescent cell viability to extend health span

PD Robbins, D Jurk, S Khosla… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Senescence is the consequence of a signaling mechanism activated in stressed cells to
prevent proliferation of cells with damage. Senescent cells (Sncs) often develop a …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting p21Cip1 highly expressing cells in adipose tissue alleviates insulin resistance in obesity

L Wang, B Wang, NS Gasek, Y Zhou, RL Cohn… - Cell metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
Insulin resistance is a pathological state often associated with obesity, representing a major
risk factor for type 2 diabetes. Limited mechanism-based strategies exist to alleviate insulin …

Persistence of a regeneration-associated, transitional alveolar epithelial cell state in pulmonary fibrosis

Y Kobayashi, A Tata, A Konkimalla, H Katsura… - Nature cell …, 2020 - nature.com
Stem cells undergo dynamic changes in response to injury to regenerate lost cells.
However, the identity of transitional states and the mechanisms that drive their trajectories …

[HTML][HTML] Mesenchymal stem cells and their microenvironment

J Liu, J Gao, Z Liang, C Gao, Q Niu, F Wu… - Stem Cell Research & …, 2022 - Springer
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), coming from a wide range of sources, have multi-
directional differentiation ability. MSCs play vital roles in immunomodulation, hematopoiesis …

Chemotherapy induces senescence-like resilient cells capable of initiating AML recurrence

C Duy, M Li, M Teater, C Meydan, FE Garrett-Bakelman… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) frequently relapse after chemotherapy, yet the
mechanism by which AML reemerges is not fully understood. Herein, we show that primary …