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Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer
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For most species, aging promotes a host of degenerative pathologies that are characterized by debilitating losses of tissue or cellular function. However, especially among vertebrates, aging also promotes hyperplastic pathologies, the most deadly of which is cancer. In contrast to the loss of function that characterizes degenerating cells and tissues, malignant (cancerous) cells must acquire new (albeit aberrant) functions that allow them to develop into a lethal tumor. This review discusses the idea that, despite seemingly opposite characteristics, the degenerative and hyperplastic pathologies of aging are at least partly linked by a common biological phenomenon: a cellular stress response known as cellular senescence. The senescence response is widely recognized as a potent tumor suppressive mechanism. However, recent evidence strengthens the idea that it also drives both degenerative and hyperplastic pathologies, most likely by promoting chronic inflammation. Thus, the senescence response may be the result of antagonistically pleiotropic gene action.
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“the effects of the senescent fibroblasts were due primarily to their secretion of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), which are prominent SASP components (32, 94).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE, AGING, AND CANCER: THE DARK SIDE > Senescent Cells and Degenerative Phenotypes
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In “SASPs Induce Epithelial–Mesenchyme Transitions and Invasiveness” (page unavailable), the paper reports that senescent fibroblast secretions promoted invasion, but identifies IL-6 and IL-8—not MMPs—as the SASP factors contributing substantially to that effect. Our copy does not identify MMPs as prominent SASP components or as the primary cause of these effects. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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The Results section, “Members of MMP and Other Gene Clusters Comprise the Conserved SASP” (page not provided), identifies secreted MMPs as SASP components. The paper does not show that MMPs were primarily responsible for the disruptive effects in the cited cultures; its Discussion instead attributes much of the growth-stimulatory activity to CXCL-1. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“Finally, the SASP also includes proteins that can help senescent cells evade immune recognition and clearance (92, 93).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: THE BRIGHT SIDE > Immune Clearance
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In “The Senescence-Associated Secretory Phenotype Affects Leukocyte Infiltration and Tumor Immunology” (page unavailable), the paper says molecules overexpressed by senescent fibroblasts can lead to an inadequate immune response near those cells. It does not say that these proteins help senescent cells themselves evade immune recognition or clearance; the discussion concerns immune responses in the tumor environment. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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The “Multiple roles of the SASP” section says the SASP might signal the immune system to clear senescent cells. It also describes SASP-associated cytokines and enzymes promoting clearance in mouse models. The cited paper thus makes the contrary point, rather than identifying proteins that help senescent cells evade recognition or clearance. Page numbers were not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“This finding may be complicated by the fact that the proliferative arrest of mouse cells cultured in ambient oxygen concentrations (approximately 20%), which is substantially higher than the oxygen concentrations to which cells are exposed in vivo, has only some features of the senescence response that is induced under more physiological oxygen concentrations (38, 94).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: THE BRIGHT SIDE > Tumor Suppression
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The paper reports that mouse embryonic fibroblasts arrested and showed a senescent morphology in 20% oxygen. But in its discussion of growth at physiological 3% oxygen (Fig. 2a; page unavailable), it says the cells grew with little evidence of replicative senescence, rather than undergoing the contrasting senescence response described in the claim. It notes an exception for DNA-repair-deficient Balb/c cells, whose eventual senescence at 3% oxygen had a phenotype similar to that of cells grown at 20%. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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The Discussion (page not provided) says mouse cells arrested in 20% oxygen show some senescence features, including growth arrest and SA-βGal activity, but differ from mouse cells made senescent in physiological oxygen. The Results (page not provided) identify 20% oxygen as atmospheric culture conditions and 3% as physiological oxygen. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“The permanence of the senescence growth arrest enforces the idea that the senescence response evolved at least in part to suppress the development of cancer (9).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: OVERVIEW
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The Introduction describes senescence as an irreversible loss of proliferative capacity and places it among cellular mechanisms of tumor suppression that evolved to protect against cancer. The “Blocking Tumor Growth by Senescence” section reports experiments examining that protective role. Page numbers are not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“However, molecular biological manipulations, for example, the sequential inactivation of certain tumor suppressor genes, can cause senescent cells to proliferate (10).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: OVERVIEW
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The Results report that WI-38 cells with p16 suppressed before senescence resumed proliferation after subsequent p53 inactivation; more than 70% proliferated. This supports the cited example of sequential molecular manipulations, though the result depends on when p16 is suppressed. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Many types of cytotoxic chemotherapies are severe DNA-damaging agents that can induce senescence in both tumor cells and surrounding normal cells (31–34).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: CAUSES > Genomic Damage
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The Results and Discussion (page not available) show that doxorubicin, a DNA-damaging anticancer drug, induced senescence in surviving colon carcinoma cells. The introduction (page not available) also says DNA damage can trigger senescence in normal cells and that various anticancer agents can induce senescence-like arrest in tumor cells. It does not establish that cytotoxic chemotherapies induce senescence in surrounding normal cells. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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In “Chemotherapy-Induced SASPs Occur In Vivo,” the paper reports that the DNA-damaging chemotherapy mitoxantrone induced senescence in epithelial cell lines and normal fibroblasts in culture, and examines treated tumor cells in vivo. It does not establish that many types of chemotherapy induce senescence in normal cells surrounding tumors. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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The Introduction (page not supplied) says most conventional agents damage cellular components, often DNA, and that drug-induced damage can initiate senescence. The Discussion reports chemotherapy-induced senescence in a murine lymphoma model. Our copy does not establish that these agents cause severe DNA damage or induce senescence in surrounding normal cells. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“Nevertheless, there is substantial overlap among SASPs; proinflammatory cytokines are the most highly conserved feature, cutting across many different cell types and senescence-inducing stimuli (33, 42, 96, 99, 100, 112–114).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > SENESCENCE-ASSOCIATED SECRETORY PHENOTYPE
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The passages labeled Abstract report IL-6 and IL-8 secretion in several fibroblast models and under multiple DNA-damaging conditions. They do not compare SASPs to establish that proinflammatory cytokines are their most highly conserved feature; the paper also reports that p16-induced senescence without DNA damage did not initiate a cytokine response. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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The Results report proinflammatory cytokines among factors secreted during oncogene-induced senescence, and the Discussion describes CXCR2-binding chemokines as upregulated during both replicative and oncogene-induced senescence. The paper does not establish substantial overlap among SASPs across many cell types or show that proinflammatory cytokines are their most highly conserved feature. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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The Results report that IL-6, IL-1α, IL-1β, and IL-8 were upregulated during oncogene-induced senescence in human fibroblasts and melanocytes. The Discussion also identifies cytokines and chemokines as prominent in that setting. The paper does not establish substantial overlap among SASPs across many senescence-inducing stimuli or show that proinflammatory cytokines are their most highly conserved feature. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“The SASP is primarily a property of cells that senesce owing to, or accompanied by, genomic damage or epigenomic perturbation.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > SENESCENCE-ASSOCIATED SECRETORY PHENOTYPE > The SASP: Causes
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The discussion (p. 7) says chronic DNA-damage signaling is required for a SASP and concludes that the SASP is a consequence of severe DNA damage rather than growth arrest alone. This supports the genomic-damage part of the claim, but the passages do not address epigenomic perturbation as a cause of the SASP. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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The Results (Figure 1D) show that DNA damage sufficient to cause senescence induced a SASP, while a lower radiation dose did not. The Discussion likewise describes the SASP as a response to severe or irreparable damage. These passages support the genomic-damage part of the claim, but our copy does not establish epigenomic perturbation as another basis for the SASP. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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In the supplied copy’s Abstract (page not specified), persistent DNA damage correlates with secretion of inflammatory SASP factors, while p16-induced senescence without DNA damage does not initiate that cytokine response. The paper says DNA-damage signalling drives only a subset of SASP factors; it does not establish the claim for the SASP as a whole or address epigenomic perturbation. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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The Introduction and Results link SASP activation to DNA-damage signaling and show that HDAC inhibition can induce SASP factors without detectable DNA breaks. But the Introduction and Discussion also state that cells unable to senesce can express SASP factors, so the paper does not establish that the SASP is primarily a property of cells that senesce under those conditions. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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The Results section, “Effect of O2 on DNA Damage and Genomic Instability” (page not available), reports that the SASP correlates with persistent DNA-damage foci in mouse cells, as in human cells. The paper does not establish epigenomic perturbation as a basis for the SASP, and its findings in the cells studied do not establish the claim’s broader “primarily a property” characterization. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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The Discussion (page unavailable) reports increased secretion of CXCR2-binding chemokines during replicative and especially oncogene-induced senescence, and says the DNA-damage response is central to both. It does not establish that the SASP is primarily limited to cells with genomic damage, or link it to epigenomic perturbation. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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The paper’s Summary links oncogene-induced senescence to an inflammatory transcriptome and secretion of IL-6. The Introduction discusses DNA-damage signaling in oncogene-induced senescence, and the passage headed “IL-6 Depletion Correlates with Reduced Formation of SAHF” reports chromatin changes. These passages do not establish that the SASP is primarily a property of cells senescing with genomic damage or epigenomic perturbation across senescence types. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“Chronic inflammation, of course, is a cause of—or an important contributor to—virtually every major age-related disease, both degenerative and hyperplastic (109–111).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > SENESCENCE-ASSOCIATED SECRETORY PHENOTYPE
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The Introduction calls chronic inflammation a major underlying condition of many age-related diseases, including degenerative conditions and cancer. The Conclusion likewise describes it as a primary factor underlying numerous age-related diseases. Neither passage supports the stronger claim that it contributes to virtually every major age-related disease. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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The Introduction and Conclusions and Prospective sections (page unavailable) describe chronic inflammation as a contributor to cancer risk and tumor development. They do not support the broader claim about virtually every major age-related disease, including degenerative diseases. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“many SASP components directly or indirectly promote inflammation (59, 92, 93, 107, 108).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > SENESCENCE-ASSOCIATED SECRETORY PHENOTYPE
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In the section on soluble signaling factors, the paper identifies several SASP components as inflammatory cytokines, including IL-6 and IL-1. The sections on leukocyte infiltration and cell differentiation describe SASP factors acting on neighboring cells and recruiting inflammatory and immune cells, supporting both direct and indirect effects. Page numbers were not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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The section “Senescent cells as a source of chronic inflammation” identifies numerous SASP proteins known to stimulate inflammation. “Chronic inflammation might propel basic aging processes” also describes an indirect route: senescent-cell cytokines attract and activate innate immune cells. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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The ‘Secretory phenotype of senescent cells’ section describes the SASP as having pro-inflammatory effects and identifies inflammatory cytokines among its components. The ‘Regulation of the inflammatory component of the SASP’ section describes an indirect route: IL-1α promotes expression of IL-6 and IL-8. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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The “Cellular senescence” section describes the senescent secretory phenotype as including inflammatory cytokines, ECM-modifying proteases, and reactive oxygen species. It also explains that substances released by senescent cells attract and activate immune cells, supporting both direct and indirect contributions to inflammation. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“Dysfunctional telomeres elicit a DNA damage response (DDR) but suppress attempted DNA repair (22–25).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: CAUSES > Telomere Shortening
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The Results section ('Persistent DDR foci are localized at telomeres') says telomeric proteins inhibit DNA repair at chromosome ends. The Discussion says damaged telomeric tracts resist repair, while the Results section on ageing describes unrepaired telomeric breaks producing persistent DDR foci. Page numbers are not available in the supplied copy. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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The paper reports that dysfunctional taz1Δ telomeres undergo a DNA damage response, supporting the first half of the claim. But it says DNA repair proteins accumulate at those chromosome ends and concludes, “Thus, DNA repair is ongoing at taz1Δ chromosome ends” (Abstract; page not supplied). It describes suppression of checkpoint signaling and cell-cycle arrest, not suppression of repair at these dysfunctional telomeres. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Dysfunctional telomeres appear to be irreparable; consequently, cells with such telomeres experience persistent DDR signaling and p53 activation (24, 26), which enforce the senescence growth arrest (Figure 2).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: CAUSES > Telomere Shortening
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The Discussion proposes that irreparable telomeric damage causes persistent DDR signaling and cellular senescence. In the Results (page unavailable), linear telomeric DNA sustained p53 Ser15 phosphorylation and growth arrest in human fibroblasts; separate irradiation experiments found that sustained DDR signaling was necessary to maintain senescence. (LLM, conf=0.89)
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“Hence, the idea that the senescence response is tumor suppressive, although still speculative 50 years ago, was more firmly grounded (9).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: CAUSES
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In “Blocking Tumor Growth by Senescence” (page not supplied), Sager describes experiments examining senescence’s role in tumor suppression and concludes that senescence blocks tumor formation. This supports the cited point that the idea had gained an experimental grounding; the 50-year comparison is the citing authors’ historical framing. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“In the case of telomeres, repair followed by cell division will cause rampant genomic instability through cycles of chromosome fusion and breakage (20, 21)—major risk factors for developing cancer.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: CAUSES > Telomere Shortening
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Section 2 (p. 7) describes DNA repair systems fusing dysfunctional or uncapped telomeres, followed by mitotic breakage and cycles of fusion that cause genomic instability. Section 7 (pp. 15–16) links this instability to cancer, but specifies that it arises when cells with dysfunctional telomeres divide despite tumor-suppressor checkpoints. The claim omits the dysfunctional-telomere condition and makes repair at telomeres sound generally harmful. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“Although drug-treated BubR1H/H;INK-ATTAC mice did not live longer, they were remarkably protected from several other age-related pathologies, including cataracts, sarcopenia, and loss of subcutaneous fat (128).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE, AGING, AND CANCER: THE DARK SIDE > Senescent Cells and Degenerative Phenotypes
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The main text reports that AP20187 treatment from weaning delayed cataracts and lordokyphosis, preserved muscle function, and prevented fat loss, including subdermal fat loss (Fig. 2b–h). It also says overall survival was not substantially extended (Supplementary Fig. 5d). The cataract finding applies to treatment begun early in life; cataracts were unchanged when treatment began at five months. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“That is, the rapid robust DDR that occurs immediately after DNA damage does not induce a SASP; rather, the SASP develops slowly—over several days in culture—and only after the initial DDR subsides (32, 42).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > SENESCENCE-ASSOCIATED SECRETORY PHENOTYPE > The SASP: Regulation
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The irradiation experiment (Figure 1D; page unavailable) reports that a robust SASP appeared 4–7 days after DNA damage, not immediately, and that both radiation doses initiated a DDR while only the senescence-inducing dose produced a SASP. The DDR discussion likewise calls the SASP a slow response rather than a simple or classic DDR. Neither passage establishes that the initial DDR had subsided before the SASP developed. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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In the indexed passage labeled Abstract (page unavailable), the paper reports that IL-6 and IL-8 secretion rises over 2–5 days after high-dose irradiation, rather than immediately, and links the response to persistent DNA-damage signalling. It does not establish that the SASP begins only after the initial DDR subsides; it says DDR signalling persists and helps initiate the delayed cytokine response. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“The SASP cytokines that are responsible for these immune responses are incompletely understood but are very likely numerous (132, 135).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: THE BRIGHT SIDE > Immune Clearance
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The passage labeled Abstract (page not provided) reports that four inflammatory cytokines were upregulated after p53 reactivation in murine liver tumours, alongside infiltration by several innate immune cell types. This supports the suggestion that multiple cytokines may be involved, but the paper does not identify which cytokines are responsible for the immune responses or explicitly assess how completely they are understood. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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The Abstract says IL-6, IL-8, and other secreted factors attract immune cells, and the ‘NF-kB controls the SASP’ section identifies multiple immune-response genes. This supports the involvement of several SASP factors, but the paper does not establish that numerous cytokines are responsible for the immune responses or explicitly say that their identities are incompletely understood. Its statement that little is known concerns regulation of the SASP, not which cytokines mediate immunity. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“There are also age-related changes in the innate immune system, although they tend to be less striking than the changes in adaptive immunity; moreover, the aged innate immune system is more likely to show a loss of proper regulation than a loss of function (142, 143).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: THE BRIGHT SIDE > Immune Clearance
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The Abstract states that age-related innate immunosenescence appears to reflect dysregulation rather than exclusively impaired function, and the Introduction describes both diminished responses and hyper-reactivity. Neither passage establishes the claim that age-related innate changes are less striking than changes in adaptive immunity. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“Likewise, secreted WNT16B is an important enforcer of the senescence growth arrest of human fibroblasts in culture, as well as that of mouse cells that senesce in vivo owing to expression of an activated RAS oncogene (138).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: THE BRIGHT SIDE > Tumor Suppression
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The Results section, “WNT16B is necessary for the onset of replicative senescence” (page unavailable), reports that WNT16B knockdown let cultured human fibroblasts bypass senescence and continue proliferating. The Results section, “WNT16 is activated in OIS in vitro and in vivo” (page unavailable), finds WNT16B overexpressed in activated-K-Ras mouse lung lesions, but identifies it there as a marker; it does not show that WNT16B enforces growth arrest in those mouse cells. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“This signaling cascade induced both a senescence growth arrest and the expression of several genes that encode SASP proteins.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: THE BRIGHT SIDE > Tissue Repair
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The Results section (“CCN1 induces senescence in human fibroblasts through integrin signaling”; page not provided) reports that CCN1 caused irreversible growth arrest in skin fibroblasts and increased expression of cytokine and matrix-degrading-enzyme genes consistent with the SASP. The Results section on ROS-dependent ERK and p38 MAPK activation links the signaling pathway to cellular senescence. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“However, especially among vertebrates, aging also promotes hyperplastic pathologies, the most deadly of which is cancer.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > Abstract
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“Cellular senescence is unlikely to explain all aging phenotypes.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > INTRODUCTION: AGING AND CANCER
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“Among multicellular organisms, aging is marked by a progressive decline in the function of multiple cells and tissues.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > INTRODUCTION: AGING AND CANCER
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“The senescence response is widely recognized as a potent tumor suppressive mechanism.”
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“Cellular senescence refers to the essentially irreversible arrest of cell proliferation (growth) that occurs when cells experience potentially oncogenic stress (8) (Figure 1).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: OVERVIEW
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“Extrinsic hazards—accidents, predation, infection, starvation, and so forth—limit the life span of most species, thereby depleting natural populations of older individuals.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > INTRODUCTION: AGING AND CANCER
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“These changes include the secretion of numerous proinflammatory cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, and proteases, a feature termed the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) (Figures 2 and 3).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: OVERVIEW
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“As discussed below, DDR signaling also establishes and maintains the SASP.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: CAUSES > Telomere Shortening
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“Telomerase-positive human cells include most cancer cells, embryonic stem cells, certain adult stem cells, and a few somatic cells (for example, activated T cells).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: CAUSES > Telomere Shortening
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“Because polymerases that copy DNA templates are unidirectional and require a labile primer, the ends of linear DNA molecules cannot be completely replicated (13).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: CAUSES > Telomere Shortening
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“Finally, the SASP is a plastic phenotype. That is, proteins that are included in the SASP vary among cell types and, to some extent, with the stimulus that induced the senescence response.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > SENESCENCE-ASSOCIATED SECRETORY PHENOTYPE
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“These cells were said to have a finite replicative life span, and, later, to undergo replicative or cellular senescence (sometimes termed replicative or cellular aging).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: CAUSES
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“The ensuing decades have seen the links between cellular senescence and both aging and cancer strengthen.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: CAUSES
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“The link to cancer was more obvious.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: CAUSES
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“Rather, cellular senescence and the SASP likely evolved both to suppress the development of cancer and to promote tissue repair or regeneration in the face of injury.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: OVERVIEW
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“They have also seen an increasingly more complex view of both the causes and consequences of cellular senescence.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: CAUSES
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“These proteins act upstream of p53, which does not positively regulate the SASP (discussed below) (Figure 2).”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > SENESCENCE-ASSOCIATED SECRETORY PHENOTYPE > The SASP: Regulation
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“The picture that emerges, then, is that senescent cells accumulate with age, creating a tissue microenvironment that is permissive for the development, or at least the progression, of cancer.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE, AGING, AND CANCER: THE DARK SIDE > Senescent Cells and Cancer
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“After all, cells enter a senescent state to prevent the proliferation of damaged cells, which is a major risk factor for the development of cancer.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE, AGING, AND CANCER: THE DARK SIDE > Senescent Cells and Cancer
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“Of particular importance in this regard are the SASP components MMP3 (stromelysin) (130), which also promotes tumor cell invasion, and VEGF (97), which promotes tumor-driven angiogenesis.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE, AGING, AND CANCER: THE DARK SIDE > Senescent Cells and Cancer
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“Thus, in addition to suppressing tumorigenesis by implementing a cell-autonomous growth arrest, senescent cells can suppress cancer nonautonomously by stimulating the immune system to target oncogene-expressing premalignant or malignant cells.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: THE BRIGHT SIDE > Immune Clearance
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“This morphological transition enables transformed epithelial cells to invade and migrate through tissues and is critical in the development of metastatic cancer.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE, AGING, AND CANCER: THE DARK SIDE > Senescent Cells and Cancer
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“The effects of senescent cells within the tumor microenvironment are complex and highly dependent on physiological context.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE, AGING, AND CANCER: THE DARK SIDE > Senescent Cells and Cancer
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“The beneficial effect of senescent cells on tissue repair poses a paradox because wound healing and tissue repair decline with age.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > RESOLVING THE PARADOXES
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“In both cases, senescent cells are not chronically present, which is the case during aging and at the sites of age-related pathologies.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > RESOLVING THE PARADOXES
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Cells that express p16INK4a are senescent.
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“During the early phases of cancer progression, mutated cells display a genuine senescent phenotype, as a consequence of oncogene-induced senescence150.”
From Guidelines for minimal information on cellular senescence experimentation in vivo (2024) · cites this paper as [150]
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“These senescent cells exhibit an altered secretome known as SASP, which significantly disrupts the skin microenvironment.158”
From Inflammation and aging: signaling pathways and intervention therapies (2023) · cites this paper as [158]
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“Oxidative stress and macromolecular damage in aged cells induce a complex stress response termed cellular senescence, which has been shown to cause or exacerbate aging and several age-related pathologies”
From Single-cell RNA sequencing identifies senescent cerebromicrovascular endothelial cells in the aged mouse brain (2020) · cites this paper as Campisi 2013
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“Therefore, cellular senescence is believed to be an essential tumor suppression mechanism in vivo.”
From Cellular senescence and senescence-associated secretory phenotype via the cGAS-STING signaling pathway in cancer (2020) · cites this paper as [1]
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“Senescent cells (SnCs) accumulate in many vertebrate tissues with age and contribute to age-related pathologies1–3, presumably through their secretion of factors contributing to the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP)4–6.”
From Local clearance of senescent cells attenuates the development of post-traumatic osteoarthritis and creates a pro-regenerative environment (2017) · cites this paper as [1]
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“The induction of cellular senescence is mediated by either Rb or p53, two critical tumor suppressors, and represents a potent anti-tumor mechanism (Campisi, 2013).”
From Single senescent cell sequencing reveals heterogeneity in senescent cells induced by telomere erosion (2019) · cites this paper as Campisi, 2013
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“the SASP does not depend on either p53 or p16INK4a, which suggests that it is controlled by an independent branch of the senescence regulatory network (2, 10, 20, 26).”
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“factors secreted by senescent cells may directly or indirectly promote chronic inflammation that is thought to be a major factor in many, if not all, age-related diseases (2, 9, 10).”
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“Senescence is a protective mechanism that induces cell cycle arrest to prevent transmission of defects to progeny cells, particularly to stop malignant transformation 72-74 .”
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“There is growing evidence that senescent cells and their SASPs contribute to the pathogenesis of many other age-related diseases as well”
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“Senescence is triggered by stressors such as telomere shortening, DNA damage, oxidative stress, and oncogenic signals5,6,7,8”
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“While chemotherapy can induce senescence in healthy tissues,6 it remains unclear whether metastatic cancer itself triggers senescence in adjacent normal liver and how this differs from aging.”
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“Clearance had no impact on the spectrum or incidence of postmortem tumors, which is consistent with the hypothesis that senescent cells help create a tissue microenvironment that promotes tumor progression 1 .”
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“p21 and p16 are cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors involved in preventing cell cycle progression by preventing pRB phosphorylation [37], [240].”
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“senescent cells display extensive changes in gene expression, including the expression and secretion of many proinflammatory cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, and proteases; collectively these features are termed the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) (2, 7–10).”
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“the accumulation of senescent cells as organisms age is thought to promote aging-related phenotypes and aging-associated diseases, including cancer and neurodegeneration, in a cell-nonautonomous manner (2, 3, 10).”
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“In particular, this failsafe cellular senescence reportedly occurs in response to (1) potentially carcinogenic events including oncogene activation or oncosuppressor gene inactivation; and (2) several sublethal cellular insults, including telomere shortening, DNA damage, mitochondrial dysfunction, defective/stalled DNA replication and epigenetic, lysosomal, mechanical, metabolic, mitotic, ox”
From Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the nomenclature committee on cell death 2018. (2018) · cites this paper as [933]
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“Among the known endogenous causes of this phenotype are DNA damage, dysfunctional telomeres, epigenomic disruption, mitogenic signals and oxidative stress56.”
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“they also secrete inflammatory and other factors that can disrupt normal cellular functions, damage tissues and promote carcinogenesis61,62.”
From Senescent cells promote tissue NAD+ decline during ageing via the activation of CD38+ macrophages (2020) · cites this paper as [62]
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“Cellular stress induced by persistent DDR is a central mechanism that drives senescence in aging and age‐related diseases”
From p21 maintains senescent cell viability under persistent DNA damage response by restraining JNK and caspase signaling (2017) · cites this paper as Campisi, 2013
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“The accumulation of cells expressing a senescence-associated secretory phenotype (Campisi 2013; Young and Narita 2009) in different tissues, possibly induced by age-related NF-kB dysregulation (Bektas and others 2013), may also be a possible cause.”
From Gene expression markers of age-related inflammation in two human cohorts (2015) · cites this paper as Campisi 2013
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“A persistent DNA damage response (DDR) is the most unified pathway leading to senescence, with sensing by the Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated (ATM) protein leading to p53 phosphorylation and upregulation of cell cycle inhibitors 72-74 .”
From Vascular smooth muscle cells in atherosclerosis (2019) · cites this paper as [73]
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“The risk for aging-associated outgrowth of cancerous cells is curbed through the cellular senescence program, which forces cells that have undergone repetitive replications into permanent cell cycle arrest [33].”
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“Senescent cells increase with age in human and mouse tissues (Campisi, 2013; Wiley and Campisi, 2016)”
From Oxylipin biosynthesis reinforces cellular senescence and allows detection of senolysis (2021) · cites this paper as Campisi, 2013
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“The senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) mediates the diverse functionality of senescent cells in an autocrine and paracrine manner”
From Inside and out: the activities of senescence in cancer (2014) · cites this paper as [5]
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“the senescence response can have profound cell autonomous and non-cell autonomous activities in vivo 5,6 .”
From Inside and out: the activities of senescence in cancer (2014) · cites this paper as [5]
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“On the other hand, senescent fibroblasts can influence their local environment by turning into proinflammatory cells that can promote the growth of transformed or preneoplastic neighboring epithelial cells in culture and in vivo [22,23,24].”
From Mechanisms and Regulation of Cellular Senescence (2021) · cites this paper as [24]
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“SASP effects are beneficial or detrimental depending on the cell type, senescence stimulus, and the neighboring environment [24].”
From Mechanisms and Regulation of Cellular Senescence (2021) · cites this paper as [24]
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“Despite these caveats, there is considerable evidence that senescent cells secrete cytokines that attract immune cells and lead to tumor clearance, providing a potential explanation for tumor regression (79).”
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“Nevertheless, the incidence of cancer increases when people get older because of the increased burden of cell senescence in organs, partly due to an impaired immune system, which results in a reduced clearance of senescent cells.4”
From The costs and benefits of senotherapeutics for human health (2022) · cites this paper as [4]
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“One major hallmark of aging is the chronic accumulation of cellular senescence, a permanent state of cell-cycle arrest in response to various damaging stimuli.3,4”
From Elimination of senescent cells by β-galactosidase-targeted prodrug attenuates inflammation and restores physical function in aged mice (2020) · cites this paper as [3]
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“However, the deleterious consequences that result from ineffective clearance of senescent cells and their over-accumulation in tissues can promote age-related diseases and cancer.2,26–30”
From Paracrine roles of cellular senescence in promoting tumourigenesis (2018) · cites this paper as [27]
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“Supporting this notion, the burden of senescent cells in tissues increases significantly with age in mice, primates, and humans,27 and they can be found in both benign and malignant tumours.31–35”
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“A large number of proangiogenic factors are also known to be secreted by senescent cells, whereas angiostatic molecules have not been found to be secreted.27,60”
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“Furthermore, studies have shown that senescent cells are implicated in the genesis of age-related diseases such as AD and atherosclerosis [1].”
From Oxidative Stress and Ageing: The Influence of Environmental Pollution, Sunlight and Diet on Skin (2017) · cites this paper as [1]
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“Cellular senescence refers to the irreversible arrest of proliferation, which acts as a tumour-suppressive mechanism to inhibit cells with potentially cancerous mutations from undergoing replication [1].”
From Oxidative Stress and Ageing: The Influence of Environmental Pollution, Sunlight and Diet on Skin (2017) · cites this paper as [1]
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§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: THE BRIGHT SIDE > Tumor Suppression
“Together, these findings support the idea that, at least for some factors and under some circumstances, the SASP helps maintain the tumor suppressive growth arrest of senescent cells.”
§ Aging, Cellular Senescence, and Cancer > CELLULAR SENESCENCE: THE BRIGHT SIDE > Tumor Suppression
“In these cases, the SASP components appear to help establish the senescence growth arrest, rather than maintain the arrest once it is fully established.”
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BackgroundNew Insights into Chronological Mobility of Retrotransposons In Vivo
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“Given that the risk of cancer increases with age (campisi, 2013), it is sensible that participants would be comparatively pessimistic about their risk of developing cancer now compared to 10 years ago.”
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“SIPS stimuli that do not activate DDR or entail genomic damage will instead activate the cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor p16-pRB pathway to initiate senescence (25).”
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“However, senescence also underlies important phenotypes associated with aging and cancer; specifically, the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) promotes chronic inflammation and drives degenerative pathologies and carcinogenesis (10).”
BackgroundIdentification of a Proteomic Signature of Senescence in Primary Human Mammary Epithelial Cells
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“In humans, It is estimated that the combination of these changes starts to manifest in middle-aged humans, and is associated with increased occurrences of particular pathologies such as atherosclerosis, sarcopenia, osteoporosis, renal failure, heart failure, or cancer [1].”
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“First, radiation-mediated DNA damage can induce cellular growth arrest by activating cell cycle checkpoints ( Campisi, 2013 ).”
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“Now-classic work has implicated p16 and p21 in the repression of pro-cell cycle 50 genes and promotion of growth arrest (15) after DNA damage, and NF-kB, p53, and C/EBPβ as 51 regulators of the SASP (16).”
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“This senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) is characterised by the secretion of high levels of pro-in fl ammatory cytokines, immune modulators, extracellular matrix (ECM) degrading enzymes, growth factors and proteases 3 – 5 .”
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“This process is believed to have evolved as a protective mechanism against malignant transformation (Campisi, 2013 ).”
Boccardi, V. (2025) · Biogerontology · doi:10.1007/s10522-025-10246-7 · Cited by 12
“…multiple age-related diseases Senescent cells become detrimental with age, as they secrete inflammatory cytokines, proteases, and growth factors—collec-tively known as the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) (Balducci and Ershler 2005; Campisi and D’Adda di Fagagna 2007; Campisi 2012).”
The PARP inhibitor olaparib promotes senescence in murine macrophages
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“…evolved as a tumor-suppressive mechanism to prevent propagation of damaged cells, its accumulation over time, particularly in post-mitotic tissues and stem cell niches, contributes to age-associated tissue dysfunction, chronic inflammation, and the pathogenesis of degenerative diseases [25–27].”
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“…which accumulate in the aging colon, secrete a complex mixture of factors known as the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), which can promote inflammation, disrupt tissue architecture, and influence the behavior of neighboring cells, including stem cells and immune cells [41–44].”
Characterizing primary and secondary senescence in vivo
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“…kinase inhibitors (CDKNs) including Cdkn2a (p16) and Cdkn1a (p21), an increased senescence-associated β-galactosidase (SA-β-gal) activity and DNA damage responses 1–3 —is known to occur in response to various inducers, including oncogene activation, DNA damage and replication stresses 4 .”
Protocol for isolation of adult mouse ear pinnae-derived primary fibroblasts
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“Moreover, they retain age-related pro-inflammatory changes, making them a useful model for the study of ‘‘inflamm-aging’’ (Mahmoudi et al., 2019, Campisi, 2013, Franceschi et al., 2018).”
BackgroundTargeted Therapeutics Delivery by Exploiting Biophysical Properties of Senescent Cells
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“In addition, stressors such as ROS are sometimes independent of the DDR pathway and somehow immediately stimulate the p16 pathway [29].”
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BackgroundAnalysis and validation of aging-related genes in prognosis and immune function of glioblastoma
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“Senescence is one of the prominent factors in various cancers, including GBM [13,14].”
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“motes a host of degenerative pathologies with debilitating losses of tissue or cellular function (Campisi, 2013).”
BackgroundSenescence in a cell culture model for burn wounds
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The Role of Nuclear Factor-κB in Cancer Immunity and Immunoediting
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Metadata
- Authors
- Campisi, J.
- Affiliations
- Buck Institute for Research on Aging (US)
- Corresponding author
- Campisi, Judith
- ORCID
- Campisi, Judith
- Venue
- Annual Review of Physiology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2013-02-10
- Volume
- 75
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 685-705
- ISSN
- 0066-4278 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-1585
- PMC
- PMC4166529
- OpenAlex
- W2150748567
- Semantic Scholar
- 06fb9247d328a192b4dc9451bbc06b9d7930f1b8
- Cited by
- 2,954
- References
- 152
- Citations by year
- 2026: 220 · 2025: 270 · 2024: 267 · 2023: 269 · 2022: 279 · 2021: 278 · 2020: 268 · 2019: 261 · 2018: 205 · 2017: 185 · 2016: 163 · 2015: 125 · 2014: 115 · 2013: 46
- FWCI
- 9.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Annual Review of Physiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (R37AG009909, P01AG041122, P01AG017242)
- 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
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer-related Molecular Pathways
- Keywords
- cellular senescence, aging, cancer, tumor suppression, chronic inflammation, antagonistic pleiotropy, cellular stress response, malignant transformation
- MeSH terms
- Aging, Animals, Disease Models, Animal, DNA Damage, Humans, Neoplasms, Stress, Physiological, Cellular Senescence
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