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Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics
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Senescence is a cellular stress response that results in the stable arrest of old, damaged or preneoplastic cells. Oncogene-induced senescence is tumor suppressive but can also exacerbate tumorigenesis through the secretion of pro-inflammatory factors from senescent cells. Drugs that selectively kill senescent cells, termed senolytics, have proved beneficial in animal models of many age-associated diseases. Here, we show that the cardiac glycoside, ouabain, is a senolytic agent with broad activity. Senescent cells are sensitized to ouabain-induced apoptosis, a process mediated in part by induction of the pro-apoptotic Bcl2-family protein NOXA. We show that cardiac glycosides synergize with anti-cancer drugs to kill tumor cells and eliminate senescent cells that accumulate after irradiation or in old mice. Ouabain also eliminates senescent preneoplastic cells. Our findings suggest that cardiac glycosides may be effective anti-cancer drugs by acting through multiple mechanism. Given the broad range of senescent cells targeted by cardiac glycosides their use against age-related diseases warrants further exploration.
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Cardiac glycosides, especially ouabain, act as broad-spectrum senolytics that preferentially kill senescent cells across oncogene-, therapy-, replicative-, and irradiation-induced models. The effect involves apoptosis partly through NOXA and Na⁺/K⁺-ATPase inhibition, and ouabain also reduces senescent cells and inflammation in old mice and preneoplastic lesions.
Key findings
- Screening the 1,280-compound LOPAC library in IMR90 ER:RAS oncogene-induced senescence and etoposide-induced senescence identified ouabain and CGP-74514A as compounds that selectively killed both senescent models; ouabain also killed cells senesced by doxorubicin, palbociclib, or replicative exhaustion and eliminated p16INK4a-positive primary bronchial epithelial cells.
- Ouabain’s EC50 was about 50-fold lower in senescent than normal cells; digoxin and digitoxin were also senolytic, with digitoxin active near plasma concentrations reported in cardiac patients (20–33 nM). Bufalin and aglycone forms also showed activity, arguing the glycoside chain is not required.
- Senescent-cell killing occurred via apoptosis: cleaved caspase 3 and caspase 3/7 activity increased, and pan-caspase inhibition blocked death, whereas ferroptosis, pyroptosis, or necroptosis inhibitors did not. Mechanistically, ouabain effects were linked to Na⁺/K⁺-ATPase inhibition, K⁺ loss, and partial dependence on NOXA, with JNK, GSK3-β, and p38 signaling involved.
- In vivo, ouabain reduced Nras-positive senescent hepatocytes in immunosuppressed mice, eliminated β-catenin-positive preneoplastic pituitary cells ex vivo, reduced lung senescent cells and Il1a/Il6 after 6 Gy irradiation, and in 24-month-old female mice lowered p16INK4a in liver, heart, and kidney, reduced liver SA-β-Gal, and reversed some age-associated blood, motor, and immune-infiltration changes; plasma ouabain was 1.24 ± 0.48 ng/ml 24 h after a treatment round.
Methods
- Unbiased drug screens used IMR90 ER:RAS cells for oncogene-induced senescence and etoposide-treated IMR90 cells for therapy-induced senescence, with the LOPAC 1,280 library and viability readouts by automated microscopy; additional senescence models included doxorubicin, palbociclib, replicative exhaustion, irradiation, and multiple cancer cell lines.
- Mechanistic work used RNA-seq, GSEA, xCell, qRT-PCR, immunoblot, siRNA/shRNA knockdown, intracellular ion probes, caspase activity assays, and inhibitors of apoptosis and signaling pathways.
- Mouse studies included C57BL/6J mice given 6 Gy total-body irradiation, C.B17 scid/beige mice with transposon-mediated NRASG12V expression, ex vivo cultured embryonic pituitaries from a β-catenin model, and 98–103-week-old female C57BL/6J mice treated intermittently with 1 mg/kg ouabain intraperitoneally for 13 weeks, with physical tests, blood chemistry, ELISA, IHC, and RNA-seq.
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- The paper states that it remains unclear whether Na⁺/K⁺-ATPase inhibition fully explains the senolytic effects of cardiac glycosides, how much of the benefit in old mice is specifically due to senolysis versus other effects, and whether these compounds have senolytic activity in humans.
- The authors note that cardiac glycosides are pleiotropic, so alternative or complementary explanations—including direct killing of specific immune infiltrates—cannot be excluded; mouse resistance to ouabain due to Atp1a1 differences also complicates translation.
- Evident from the text: several age-related endpoints were non-significant trends (for example grip strength, p21Cip1, and LINE1 ORF1), some bystander doxorubicin data are described as not shown, old mice were not littermates, and the study is preclinical with small mouse cohorts.
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“Therapy-induced senescence determines the response to chemo- and radiotherapy 40”
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- Partly supportedcites [40] Schmitt, C. A. et al. A senescence program controlled by p53 and p16INK4a contributes to the outcome of cancer therapy. Cell 109, 335–346 (2002). sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Abstract and Discussion report that senescence contributes to chemotherapy response and improves post-therapy prognosis in mice with lymphomas treated with cyclophosphamide. Our copy also mentions radiation as a possible trigger of senescence, but does not establish that senescence determines the response to radiotherapy. The claim therefore extends beyond the treatment and model tested. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Treatment of IMR90 cells with etoposide caused senescence (Extended data Fig 2a)”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Results > A drug screen identifies ouabain as a broad-spectrum senolytic
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“eliminate senescent cells that accumulate after irradiation or in old mice.”
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“Treatment with ouabain resulted in a reduced presence of senescent cells”
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“reduced p16INK4a levels when comparing ouabain-treated old mice with their age-matched counterparts”
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“co-staining with antibodies recognizing cleaved caspase 3 showed that ouabain selectively induced apoptosis of β-catenin + senescent cells (Fig 4h).”
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“Treatment with inhibitors of JNK, GSK3-ß or p38 signalling, confirmed the involvement of these pathways on the induction of NOXA (Fig 3j) and apoptosis in senescent cells treated with CGs (Fig 3k).”
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“Ouabain treatment not only preferentially killed cells undergoing senescence triggered by oncogenic RAS (Fig 1d), or etoposide (Fig 1i), but also those exposed to doxorubicin (Fig 2a), the CDK4/6 inhibitor palbociclib (Fig 2b) or undergoing replicative senescence (Fig 2c).”
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“Curcumin, a general inhibitor of P-type pumps 31, also displayed senolytic activity”
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- Not checked yetcites [31] Dao, T. T. et al. Demethoxycurcumin is A potent inhibitor of P-Type ATPases from diverse kingdoms of life. PLoS ONE 11, e0163260 (2016). source
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“Mice treated with CGs displayed reduced numbers of Nras-positive senescent hepatocytes due to increased apoptosis”
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“Senescent cells displayed increased intracellular concentrations of all these cations.”
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“We noted that both ouabain and digoxin induced a subset of pro-apoptotic Bcl2 family proteins (Fig 3g).”
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“It has been proposed that a two-step combination of senescence-inducing anti-cancer agents followed by senolytics could be an improved strategy to treat cancer 43.”
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- Supportedcites [43] Wang, L. & Bernards, R. Taking advantage of drug resistance, a new approach in the war on cancer. Front. Med. 12, 490–495 (2018). source
The section “A one-two punch model for cancer therapy” explicitly proposes inducing senescence in cancer cells with a first drug, then using a senolytic to eradicate them. Its stated advantage is sequential rather than simultaneous treatment, matching the citing sentence’s proposed two-step strategy; the paper presents this as a proposal, not an established clinical outcome. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Therapy-induced senescence plays an important role in determining the outcome of anti-cancer treatment 40, whilst also being responsible for some of its side effects 41.”
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- Supportedcites [40] Schmitt, C. A. et al. A senescence program controlled by p53 and p16INK4a contributes to the outcome of cancer therapy. Cell 109, 335–346 (2002). source
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- Supportedcites [41] Demaria, M. et al. Cellular senescence promotes adverse effects of chemotherapy and cancer relapse. Cancer Discov. 7, 165–176 (2016). source
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“While senescent MEFs were not killed by high doses of ouabain, ouabain behaved as a senolytic in BNL CL.2 murine liver cells”
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“Bufalin also displayed senolytic properties (Fig 2g) as did ouabagenin, the aglycone of ouabain”
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“confirmed, as previously shown 38, that preneoplastic clusters of β-catenin positive cells were senescent: they were arrested (ki67 -) and enriched for markers of senescent such as p21CIP1 or Glb1”
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- Not checked yetcites [38] Gonzalez-Meljem, J. M. et al. Stem cell senescence drives age-attenuated induction of pituitary tumours in mouse models of paediatric craniopharyngioma. Nat. Commun. 8, 1819 (2017). source
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“Treatment with CGs resulted in cleaved caspase 3 and induced caspase 3/7 activity in senescent cells”
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“Treatment with ABT-737 or ouabain specifically eliminated the β-catenin-positive senescent cells (Fig 4g and Extended data Fig 6a-b) without affecting other cell types in the pituitary”
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“We also observed an ouabain-dependent activation of JNK, GSK3-ß and p38 in senescent cells (Fig 3h).”
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“supplementation with KCl prevented ouabain-induced (but not ABT-263-induced) death of senescent cells (Fig 3e).”
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“Here, we show that the cardiac glycoside, ouabain, is a senolytic agent with broad activity.”
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“Taken together these results further demonstrate that ouabain behaves as a broad-spectrum senolytic agent.”
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“Overexpression of rATP1A1 prevented the senolytic effects of ouabain, but not those of ABT-263 (Fig 3f).”
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“the killing of senescent cells by CGs was prevented by pan-caspase inhibitors but not by inhibitors of ferroptosis, pyroptosis or necroptosis”
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“While CG-resistant Atp1a1 is downregulated in the liver of old mice, the expression of CG-sensitive Atp1a3 increases (Supplementary Fig 6).”
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“levels of ouabain in blood dropped to undetectable levels at the end of the ‘holiday’ period.”
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“A subset of the identified compounds behave as broad-spectrum senolytics while others are just selective against a specific type of senescent cells.”
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“ABT-263 treatment that caused a drop of platelets in blood and decreased platelet infiltration in livers of mice”
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“Treatment with ouabain resulted in a reduced presence of senescent cells and lower expression of cytokines such as Il1a or Il6 (Fig 5f-h).”
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“This regime was well tolerated in mice, with levels of ouabain in plasma reaching 1.24+/-0.48 ng/ml 24h after a round of treatment”
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“blood phosphate levels were lower in old mice and this decrease was significantly reversed upon ouabain treatment”
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“Using GSEA analysis, we observed the upregulation of gene signatures associated with senescence, inflammation and aging in old mice, a trend that significantly reversed upon ouabain treatment”
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“Using xCell, we observed that the immune infiltration in the liver changed in old mice. Interestingly, many of these changes were significantly reversed in ouabain-treated old mice”
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“suggesting that the senolytic properties of CGs could be related to the inhibition of their canonical target, Na+, K+-ATPase, although we cannot formally exclude that CGs induce senolysis via other cellular mechanisms.”
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“Senescent cells are present in pre-neoplastic and fibrotic lesions, they accumulate in old tissues and are associated with an increasing list of pathologies 8.”
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- Not checked yetcites [8] McHugh, D. & Gil, J. Senescence and aging: Causes, consequences, and therapeutic avenues. J. Cell Biol. 217, 65–77 (2018). source
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“Currently Bcl2 family inhibitors are the most widely used senolytics, having been shown effective at killing a range of senescent cells in vivo”
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- Not checked yetcites [23] Ovadya, Y. & Krizhanovsky, V. Strategies targeting cellular senescence. J. Clin. Invest. 128, 1247–1254 (2018). source
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“Irradiation, chemotherapy and some targeted anti-cancer drugs, including aurora kinase inhibitors, all induce senescence 40,42.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Results > Dual benefit of ouabain on therapy-induced senescence
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- Not checked yetcites [40] Schmitt, C. A. et al. A senescence program controlled by p53 and p16INK4a contributes to the outcome of cancer therapy. Cell 109, 335–346 (2002). source
- Not checked yetcites [42] Wang, L. et al. High-throughput functional genetic and compound screens identify targets for senescence induction in cancer. Cell Rep. 21, 773–783 (2017). source
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“Oncogene-induced senescence protects against tumor initiation 34–37.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Results > Ouabain eliminates preneoplastic senescent cells
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- Not checked yetcites [34] Collado, M. et al. Tumour biology: senescence in premalignant tumours. Nature 436, 642 (2005). source
- Not checked yetcites [35] Michaloglou, C. et al. BRAFE600-associated senescence-like cell cycle arrest of human naevi. Nature 436, 720–724 (2005). source
- Not checked yetcites [36] Braig, M. et al. Oncogene-induced senescence as an initial barrier in lymphoma development. Nature 436, 660–665 (2005). source
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“These preneoplastic senescent cells are the subject of active immune surveillance and failure of this process results in increased tumor risk 5.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Results > Ouabain eliminates preneoplastic senescent cells
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Kang, T. W. et al. Senescence surveillance of pre-malignant hepatocytes limits liver cancer development. Nature 479, 547–551 (2011). source
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“clearing senescent cells from progeroid or naturally aging mice improves healthspan 10, increases lifespan 12 and benefits an array of pathologies”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites [10] Baker, D. J. et al. Clearance of p16Ink4a-positive senescent cells delays ageing-associated disorders. Nature 479, 232–236 (2011). source
- Not checked yetcites [12] Baker, D. J. et al. Naturally occurringp16(Ink4a)-positive cells shorten healthy lifespan. Nature 530, 184–189 (2016). source
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“For in vivo studies, mice were randomly assigned to treatment groups.”
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“whilst also contributing to their side effects 41.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [41] Demaria, M. et al. Cellular senescence promotes adverse effects of chemotherapy and cancer relapse. Cancer Discov. 7, 165–176 (2016). source
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“Moreover, the broad specificity of CGs as senolytics, and the causal role of senescence in age-related disease suggest that CGs might have benefits that extend beyond their anti-cancer properties.”
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“Although our data suggest that the senolytic effects of CGs are due to on-target inhibition of the Na+/K+-ATPase, it needs to be clarified whether this inhibition (fully) explains the senolytic properties of CGs.”
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“Given that chemotherapy, radiotherapy and some targeted anti-cancer drugs rely on senescence induction, a follow-up senolytic treatment has been proposed as a way to improve cancer therapy 42.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Discussion
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [42] Wang, L. et al. High-throughput functional genetic and compound screens identify targets for senescence induction in cancer. Cell Rep. 21, 773–783 (2017). source
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“However, their senolytic action may require intermittent rather than continuous usage, and depending on the indication, administration could be local rather than systemic.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Discussion
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“The accumulation of senescent cells in ageing organisms contributes to many diseases, including cancer 46.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Results > Ouabain treatment resets immune infiltration in old mice
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [46] Childs, B. G., Durik, M., Baker, D. J. & van Deursen, J. M. Cellular senescence in aging and age-related disease: from mechanisms to therapy. Nat. Med. 21, 1424–1435 (2015). source
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“OIS is a powerful tumor suppressor mechanism 34–37.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Discussion
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [34] Collado, M. et al. Tumour biology: senescence in premalignant tumours. Nature 436, 642 (2005). source
- Not checked yetcites [35] Michaloglou, C. et al. BRAFE600-associated senescence-like cell cycle arrest of human naevi. Nature 436, 720–724 (2005). source
- Not checked yetcites [36] Braig, M. et al. Oncogene-induced senescence as an initial barrier in lymphoma development. Nature 436, 660–665 (2005). source
- Not checked yetcites [37] Chen, Z. et al. Crucial role of p53-dependent cellular senescence in suppression of Pten-deficient tumorigenesis. Nature 436, 725–730 (2005). source
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“Senescent cells are associated with cancer, accumulate with age and are present in many pathologies 9.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [9] Munoz-Espin, D. & Serrano, M. Cellular senescence: from physiology to pathology. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 15, 482–496 (2014). source
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“The results presented here are consistent with those of the Collado group, that also identified CGs as senolytic in the context of bleomycin-induced senescence of cancer cells (crossreference).”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites crossreference
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“In particular, the fact that CGs will eliminate incipient preneoplastic cells, should reduce the rate of cancer initiation and could suggest a prophylactic use to diminish cancer incidence.”
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“The above results suggest that CGs can be combined with anti-cancer therapies to both enhance the elimination of cancer cells and avoid the accumulation of bystander senescent cells responsible of some of the side effects of these treatments.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Results > Dual benefit of ouabain on therapy-induced senescence
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“Given that digoxin has a long history of use in the clinic and its side effects can be monitored and managed 56”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Discussion
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [56] Li, B. et al. Ouabain ameliorates bleomycin induced pulmonary fibrosis by inhibiting proliferation and promoting apoptosis of lung fibroblasts. Am. J. Transl. Res. 10, 2967–2974 (2018).
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“Genetic and pharmacological strategies have demonstrated the benefits of eliminating senescent cells in the context of aging and disease 10,12,51.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Discussion
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [10] Baker, D. J. et al. Clearance of p16Ink4a-positive senescent cells delays ageing-associated disorders. Nature 479, 232–236 (2011). source
- Not checked yetcites [12] Baker, D. J. et al. Naturally occurringp16(Ink4a)-positive cells shorten healthy lifespan. Nature 530, 184–189 (2016). source
- Not checked yetcites [51] Childs, B. G. et al. Senescent cells: an emerging target for diseases of ageing. Nat. Rev. Drug Discov. 16, 718–735 (2017). source
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“In conclusion, the above results suggest that ouabain can be used as a senolytic beyond cancer and that besides eliminating senescent cells, ouabain reduced the levels of local inflammation and immune infiltration”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Results > Ouabain treatment resets immune infiltration in old mice
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“Both sexes were used throughout the study.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Methods > Mouse models and drug treatments
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“This result suggests that ouabain is not just a senolytic compound but it also has a synthetic lethal interaction with RAS, which potentially makes it a cancer therapy with a useful dual mechanism of action.”
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“The canonical activity of CGs is to inhibit the Na+, K+-ATPase 25 but other activities have been suggested to explain their pleiotropic effects 26.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [25] Therien, A. G. & Blostein, R. Mechanisms of sodium pump regulation. Am. J. Physiol. Cell Physiol. 279, C541–C566 (2000). source
- Not checked yetcites [26] Prassas, I. & Diamandis, E. P. Novel therapeutic applications of cardiac glycosides. Nat. Rev. Drug Discov. 7, 926–935 (2008). source
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“The broad-spectrum senolytic action of CGs suggest that they might target a common vulnerability induced by senescence.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Discussion
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“Mice have been described more resistant than human to the canonical effects of CGs due to differences in the Atp1a1 protein 32.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [32] Price, E. M. & Lingrel, J. B. Structure-function relationships in the Na,K-ATPase alpha subunit: site-directed mutagenesis of glutamine-111 to arginine and asparagine-122 to aspartic acid generates a ouabain-resistant enzyme. Biochemistry 27, 8400–8408 (1988). source
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“All replicates in this study represent different mice.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Methods > Statistical analysis
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“The mice used for all experiments were randomly assigned to control or treatment groups.”
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“The mice were randomly assigned to control or treatment group.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Methods > Mouse models and drug treatments
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“These differences in specificity open up possibilities for the choice of senolytic depending on their intended clinical use.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Discussion
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“Our data suggest that broad-spectrum senolytics such as CGs, will also eliminate other subsets of senescent cells such as preneoplastic cells, bystander senescent cells induced by anti-cancer therapy and age-associated senescent cells which contribute to chronic inflammation.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Discussion
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“This protocol is preferred because lower scores are often due to the mouse failing to grip the bar effectively, rather than reflecting muscular strength.”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Methods > Physical tests
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How senolytics affect cancer initiation, progression, and treatment is poorly defined or understudied.
“Despite the many roles that senescence plays in cancer initiation, progression and treatment, how senolytics can affect these processes is poorly defined.”
“Despite the multiple roles that senescence holds during cancer initiation, progression and treatment, how senolytics impact on these processes is understudied.”
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There is a need to identify further compounds with senolytic properties because of side-effects of known senolytics.
“Due to the important side-effects associated to known senolytic compounds, there is a need to identify further compounds with senolytic properties.”
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Senescence occurs at different stages of cancer evolution and treatment.
“Senescence occurs at different stages of cancer evolution and treatment.”
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Chemotherapy, radiotherapy and some targeted anti-cancer drugs rely on senescence induction.
“Given that chemotherapy, radiotherapy and some targeted anti-cancer drugs rely on senescence induction”
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Cardiac glycosides have been used in the clinic for a long time.
“CGs have been used in the clinic for a long time.”
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Digoxin and digitoxin are used for heart failure and atrial arrhythmia.
“Digoxin and digitoxin are used for the treatment of heart failure and atrial arrhythmia.”
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Senescence has a causal role in age-related disease.
“the causal role of senescence in age-related disease”
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A factor limiting the use of cardiac glycosides has been their potential for side effects.
“a factor limiting their use has been the potential for side effects.”
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“Cardiac glycosides, including the widely prescribed digoxin, were able to selectively kill TIS cancer cells in culture and invivo 208,209 .”
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“We also find that lung fibroblasts and prostate stromal cells, commonly used as models for senolytic drug development, are classified as SID5 by SenCID (Figure S3H) in two independent datasets85”
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“Cardiac glycosides, such as ouabain and digoxin, inhibit Na⁺/K⁺-ATPase and may capitalize on altered membrane potential or reduced stress tolerance that is more pronounced in SnCs than in non-SnCs48,49.”
From Emerging strategies in senotherapeutics: from broad-spectrum senolysis to precision reprogramming (2026) · cites this paper as [48]
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“Some of these compounds, e.g. ouabain13, have wide-spectrum senolytic action, whereas others such as BIX-01294, limit their effect to specific conditions13.”
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“The drop in cell number compared to untreated controls is indicated by the nuclei count and reflects cell death13,15.”
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“Recently, the cardiac glycoside ouabain demonstrated senolytic activity, at least in part, through the induction of NOXA, a proapoptotic BCL-2 family protein203,204.”
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“Other senolytic compounds, including cardiac glycosides, are widely used clinically and cooperate with prosenescence therapies to kill cancer cells (Guerrero et al. 2019).”
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“Despite encouraging results, to date there are few known compounds with proven senolytic action11–19,23–28”
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“Senolytics have shown substantial promise in ameliorating symptoms of many conditions in mice11–20”
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“We assembled a list of 58 previously identified senolytics mined from 15 sources11–19,23–28 (Fig. 1b).”
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“Senolytic cardiac glycosides activate a transcriptional programme resulting in the induction of several pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 family proteins13.”
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“similar results have been obtained by another group performing independently cell-based screenings and using other unrelated chemical libraries”
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“such broad-spectrum senolytics, which target different types of senescent cells that coexist in the tumor microenvironment, could have benefits that go beyond potentiating prosenescence therapies (Guerrero et al. 2019).”
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“The senolytic effect of cardiac glycosides has been previously linked to its canonical target, the Na+/K+ ATPase pump13.”
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“Specifically, ouabain induces the expression of the BH3-only pro-apoptotic protein NOXA, which mediates its senolytic effect.”
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§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Extended Data
“Representative images of immunofluorescence staining of GFP and cleaved caspase-3 and quantification of intensity levels in 1/2 independent experiments (n = 200 cells).”
§ Cardiac glycosides are broad-spectrum senolytics > Extended Data
“Data represent mean ± s.d; n represents number of mice.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Guerrero, A., Herranz, N., Sun, B., Wagner, V., Gallage, S., Guiho, R., Wolter, K., Pombo, J., Irvine, E. E., Innes, A. J., Birch, J., Glegola, J., Manshaei, S., Heide, D., Dharmalingam, G., Harbig, J., Olona, A., Behmoaras, J., Dauch, D., Uren, A. G., Zender, L., Vernia, S., Martínez-Barbera, J. P., Heikenwalder, M., Withers, D. J., & Gil, J.
- Affiliations
- MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (GB)
- German Cancer Research Center (DE)
- University College London (GB)
- Universitätsklinikum Tübingen (DE)
- Hammersmith Hospital (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Gil, Jesús
- ORCID
- Guerrero, Ana
- Herranz, Nicolás
- Sun, Bin
- Wagner, Verena
- Gallage, Suchira
- Guiho, Romain
- Wolter, Katharina
- Irvine, Elaine E.
- Innes, Andrew J.
- Birch, Jodie
- Manshaei, Saba
- Heide, Danijela
- Harbig, Jule
- Behmoaras, Jacques
- Uren, Anthony G.
- Zender, Lars
- Vernia, Santiago
- Martínez-Barbera, Juan Pedro
- Withers, Dominic J.
- Gil, Jesús
- Venue
- Nature Metabolism
- Published
- 2019-10-21
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1074-1088
- ISSN
- 2522-5812 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6887543
- OpenAlex
- W2980638238
- Cited by
- 359
- References
- 71
- Citations by year
- 2026: 36 · 2025: 60 · 2024: 58 · 2023: 49 · 2022: 52 · 2021: 52 · 2020: 48 · 2019: 4
- FWCI
- 26.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature Metabolism (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Spiral (Imperial College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- RCUK | Medical Research Council (MC-A652-5PZ00)
- RCUK | MRC | Medical Research Foundation (MC-A652-5PZ00)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Aging › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Cell death mechanisms and regulation
- Keywords
- cardiac glycosides, ouabain, senolytics, cellular senescence, oncogene-induced senescence, Noxa, apoptosis, radiation-induced senescence, age-related diseases
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Antineoplastic Agents, Cardiac Glycosides, Humans, Ouabain, Quercetin, Cellular Senescence, Apoptosis, Mice, Rats
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