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Senolytics for Cancer Therapy: Is All that Glitters Really Gold?

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Carpenter, Valerie J., Saleh, Tareq, Gewirtz, David A.·2021·Cancers

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Senolytics represent a group of mechanistically diverse drugs that can eliminate senescent cells, both in tumors and in several aging-related pathologies. Consequently, senolytic use has been proposed as a potential adjuvant approach to improve the response to senescence-inducing conventional and targeted cancer therapies. Despite the unequivocal promise of senolytics, issues of universality, selectivity, resistance, and toxicity remain to be further clarified. In this review, we attempt to summarize and analyze the current preclinical literature involving the use of senolytics in senescent tumor cell models, and to propose tenable solutions and future directions to improve the understanding and use of this novel class of drugs.

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Authors
Carpenter, V. J., Saleh, T., & Gewirtz, D. A.
Affiliations
  • Virginia Commonwealth University (US)
  • Hashemite University (JO)
Corresponding author
Gewirtz, David A.
Venue
Cancers
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2021-02-10
Volume
13
Issue
4
Pages
723
ISSN
2072-6694 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3128445174
Cited by
124
References
179
Citations by year
2026: 17 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 16
FWCI
2.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Cancers (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
National Institutes of Health (CA-239706)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Aging › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
Keywords
senolytics, senescent cells, cancer therapy, senescence, tumor cell models, drug selectivity, drug resistance, drug toxicity, aging, adjuvant therapy

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