Exploiting senescence for the treatment of cancer

L Wang, L Lankhorst, R Bernards - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Senescence is a cellular response to a variety of stress signals that is characterized by a
stable withdrawal from the cell cycle and major changes in cell morphology and physiology …

Ferroptosis, radiotherapy, and combination therapeutic strategies

G Lei, C Mao, Y Yan, L Zhuang, B Gan - Protein & cell, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Ferroptosis, an iron-dependent form of regulated cell death driven by peroxidative damages
of polyunsaturated-fatty-acid-containing phospholipids in cellular membranes, has recently …

Molecular mechanisms of radiation-induced cancer cell death: a primer

J Sia, R Szmyd, E Hau, HE Gee - Frontiers in cell and developmental …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Radiation therapy (RT) is responsible for at least 40% of cancer cures, however treatment
resistance remains a clinical problem. There have been recent advances in understanding …

Cellular senescence and Alzheimer disease: the egg and the chicken scenario

S Saez-Atienzar, E Masliah - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Globally, 50 million people live with dementia, with Alzheimer disease (AD) being
responsible for two-thirds of the total cases. As ageing is the main risk factor for dementia …

Cellular senescence in aging and age-related disease: from mechanisms to therapy

BG Childs, M Durik, DJ Baker, JM Van Deursen - Nature medicine, 2015 - nature.com
Cellular senescence, a process that imposes permanent proliferative arrest on cells in
response to various stressors, has emerged as a potentially important contributor to aging …

Ageing, cellular senescence and neurodegenerative disease

M Kritsilis, S V. Rizou, PN Koutsoudaki… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Ageing is a major risk factor for developing many neurodegenerative diseases. Cellular
senescence is a homeostatic biological process that has a key role in driving ageing. There …

Aging of the cells: Insight into cellular senescence and detection Methods

NSM Kamal, S Safuan, S Shamsuddin… - European journal of cell …, 2020 - Elsevier
Cellular theory of aging states that human aging is the result of cellular aging, in which an
increasing proportion of cells reach senescence. Senescence, from the Latin word senex …

Opportunities and challenges of radiotherapy for treating cancer

D Schaue, WH McBride - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2015 - nature.com
The past 20 years have seen dramatic changes in the delivery of radiation therapy, but the
impact of radiobiology on the clinic has been far less substantial. A major consideration in …

Socioeconomic status, health behavior, and leukocyte telomere length in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999–2002

BL Needham, N Adler, S Gregorich, D Rehkopf… - Social science & …, 2013 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study was to examine the association between socioeconomic status
(SES) and leukocyte telomere length (LTL)–a marker of cell aging that has been linked to …

Therapeutic implications for overcoming radiation resistance in cancer therapy

BM Kim, Y Hong, S Lee, P Liu, JH Lim, YH Lee… - International journal of …, 2015 - mdpi.com
Ionizing radiation (IR), such as X-rays and gamma (γ)-rays, mediates various forms of cancer
cell death such as apoptosis, necrosis, autophagy, mitotic catastrophe, and senescence …