Cellular senescence: the good, the bad and the unknown

W Huang, LTJ Hickson, A Eirin, JL Kirkland… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Cellular senescence is a ubiquitous process with roles in tissue remodelling, including
wound repair and embryogenesis. However, prolonged senescence can be maladaptive …

Senescent cell clearance by the immune system: Emerging therapeutic opportunities

LGPL Prata, IG Ovsyannikova, T Tchkonia… - Seminars in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Senescent cells (SCs) arise from normal cells in multiple organs due to inflammatory,
metabolic, DNA damage, or tissue damage signals. SCs are non-proliferating but …

miR-21 and miR-146a: the microRNAs of inflammaging and age-related diseases

F Olivieri, F Prattichizzo, A Giuliani… - Ageing research …, 2021 - Elsevier
The first paper on “inflammaging” published in 2001 paved the way for a unifying theory on
how and why aging turns out to be the main risk factor for the development of the most …

Aging, obesity, and inflammatory age-related diseases

D Frasca, BB Blomberg, R Paganelli - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The increase in the prevalence of obesity represents a worldwide phenomenon in all age
groups and is pathologically and genetically correlated with several metabolic and …

The epigenetics of aging and neurodegeneration

R Lardenoije, A Iatrou, G Kenis, K Kompotis… - Progress in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Epigenetics is a quickly growing field encompassing mechanisms regulating gene
expression that do not involve changes in the genotype. Epigenetics is of increasing …

The pro-inflammatory phenotype of the human non-classical monocyte subset is attributed to senescence

SM Ong, E Hadadi, TM Dang, WH Yeap, CTY Tan… - Cell death & …, 2018 - nature.com
Human primary monocytes comprise a heterogeneous population that can be classified into
three subsets based on CD14 and CD16 expression: classical (CD14high/CD16−) …

The link between diabetes and atherosclerosis

L La Sala, F Prattichizzo… - European journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Atherosclerosis is one of the main complications of diabetes involving multiple causative
factors. Dysfunction of the vascular endothelium is a hallmark of most conditions that are …

Inflammaging decreases adaptive and innate immune responses in mice and humans

D Frasca, BB Blomberg - Biogerontology, 2016 - Springer
Both the innate and adaptive immune systems decline with age, causing greater
susceptibility to infectious diseases and reduced responses to vaccination. Diseases are …

The aging lung

EM Lowery, AL Brubaker, E Kuhlmann… - Clinical interventions in …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
There are many age-associated changes in the respiratory and pulmonary immune system.
These changes include decreases in the volume of the thoracic cavity, reduced lung …

Circulating mitochondrial DNA increases with age and is a familiar trait: Implications for “inflamm‐aging”

M Pinti, E Cevenini, M Nasi, S De Biasi… - European journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Mitochondrial components, including mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), when released
extracellularly, can act as “damage‐associated molecular pattern”(DAMP) agents and cause …