The metabolic roots of senescence: mechanisms and opportunities for intervention

CD Wiley, J Campisi - Nature Metabolism, 2021 - nature.com
Cellular senescence entails a permanent proliferative arrest, coupled to multiple phenotypic
changes. Among these changes is the release of numerous biologically active molecules …

Strategies for targeting senescent cells in human disease

NS Gasek, GA Kuchel, JL Kirkland, M Xu - Nature aging, 2021 - nature.com
Cellular senescence represents a distinct cell fate characterized by replicative arrest in
response to a host of extrinsic and intrinsic stresses. Senescence facilitates programming …

The central role of DNA damage in the ageing process

B Schumacher, J Pothof, J Vijg, JHJ Hoeijmakers - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Ageing is a complex, multifaceted process leading to widespread functional decline that
affects every organ and tissue, but it remains unknown whether ageing has a unifying causal …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of cellular senescence: cell cycle arrest and senescence associated secretory phenotype

R Kumari, P Jat - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cellular senescence is a stable cell cycle arrest that can be triggered in normal cells in
response to various intrinsic and extrinsic stimuli, as well as developmental signals …

The role of retrotransposable elements in ageing and age-associated diseases

V Gorbunova, A Seluanov, P Mita, W McKerrow… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The genomes of virtually all organisms contain repetitive sequences that are generated by
the activity of transposable elements (transposons). Transposons are mobile genetic …

Senolytics reduce coronavirus-related mortality in old mice

CD Camell, MJ Yousefzadeh, Y Zhu, LGPL Prata… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The COVID-19 pandemic revealed enhanced vulnerability of the elderly
and chronically ill to adverse outcomes upon severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …

A guide to assessing cellular senescence in vitro and in vivo

E González‐Gualda, AG Baker, L Fruk… - The FEBS …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cellular senescence is a physiological mechanism whereby a proliferating cell undergoes a
stable cell cycle arrest upon damage or stress and elicits a secretory phenotype. This highly …

DNA damage—how and why we age?

M Yousefzadeh, C Henpita, R Vyas, C Soto-Palma… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Aging is a complex process that results in loss of the ability to reattain homeostasis following
stress, leading, thereby, to increased risk of morbidity and mortality. Many factors contribute …

The flavonoid procyanidin C1 has senotherapeutic activity and increases lifespan in mice

Q Xu, Q Fu, Z Li, H Liu, Y Wang, X Lin, R He… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Ageing-associated functional decline of organs and increased risk for age-related chronic
pathologies is driven in part by the accumulation of senescent cells, which develop the …

Mechanisms and regulation of cellular senescence

L Roger, F Tomas, V Gire - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cellular senescence entails a state of an essentially irreversible proliferative arrest in which
cells remain metabolically active and secrete a range of pro-inflammatory and proteolytic …