Cellular senescence in ageing: from mechanisms to therapeutic opportunities

R Di Micco, V Krizhanovsky, D Baker… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Cellular senescence, first described in vitro in 1961, has become a focus for biotech
companies that target it to ameliorate a variety of human conditions. Eminently characterized …

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 …

Aged hematopoietic stem cells are refractory to bloodborne systemic rejuvenation interventions

TT Ho, PV Dellorusso, EV Verovskaya… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - rupress.org
While young blood can restore many aged tissues, its effects on the aged blood system itself
and old hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) have not been determined. Here, we used …

Role of cellular senescence in type II diabetes

A Narasimhan, RR Flores, PD Robbins… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Cellular senescence is a cell fate that occurs in response to numerous types of stress and
can promote tissue repair or drive inflammation and disruption of tissue homeostasis …

PLK1 induces chromosomal instability and overrides cell-cycle checkpoints to drive tumorigenesis

L Gheghiani, L Wang, Y Zhang, XTR Moore, J Zhang… - Cancer research, 2021 - AACR
Abstract Polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) is an essential cell-cycle regulator that is frequently
overexpressed in various human cancers. To determine whether Plk1 overexpression drives …

Clonal selection of stable aneuploidies in progenitor cells drives high-prevalence tumorigenesis

M Trakala, M Aggarwal, C Sniffen… - Genes & …, 2021 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Chromosome gains and losses are a frequent feature of human cancers. However, how
these aberrations can outweigh the detrimental effects of aneuploidy remains unclear. An …

Molecular pathology of rare progeroid diseases

M Rieckher, GA Garinis, B Schumacher - Trends in Molecular Medicine, 2021 - cell.com
Progeroid syndromes (PSs) are characterized by the premature onset of age-related
pathologies. The genetic mutations underlying PSs are functionally linked to genome …

Genes regulating spermatogenesis and sperm function associated with rare disorders

E Linn, L Ghanem, H Bhakta, C Greer… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Spermatogenesis is a cell differentiation process that ensures the production of fertilizing
sperm, which ultimately fuse with an egg to form a zygote. Normal spermatogenesis relies …

A kaleidoscopic view of ovarian genes associated with premature ovarian insufficiency and senescence

Q Yang, S Mumusoglu, Y Qin, Y Sun… - The FASEB …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ovarian infertility and subfertility presenting with premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) and
diminished ovarian reserve are major issues facing the developed world due to the trend of …

Decoding and rejuvenating human ageing genomes: Lessons from mosaic chromosomal alterations

X Dai, X Guo - Ageing Research Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the most curious findings emerged from genome-wide studies over the last decade
was that genetic mosaicism is a dominant feature of human ageing genomes. The clonal …