Cellular senescence and senolytics: the path to the clinic

S Chaib, T Tchkonia, JL Kirkland - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Interlinked and fundamental aging processes appear to be a root-cause contributor to many
disorders and diseases. One such process is cellular senescence, which entails a state of …

Senescence and cancer—role and therapeutic opportunities

CA Schmitt, B Wang, M Demaria - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Cellular senescence is a state of stable, terminal cell cycle arrest associated with various
macromolecular changes and a hypersecretory, pro-inflammatory phenotype. Entry of cells …

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 …

The landscape of aging

Y Cai, W Song, J Li, Y Jing, C Liang, L Zhang… - Science China Life …, 2022 - Springer
Aging is characterized by a progressive deterioration of physiological integrity, leading to
impaired functional ability and ultimately increased susceptibility to death. It is a major risk …

Strategies for targeting senescent cells in human disease

NS Gasek, GA Kuchel, JL Kirkland, M Xu - Nature aging, 2021 - nature.com
Cellular senescence represents a distinct cell fate characterized by replicative arrest in
response to a host of extrinsic and intrinsic stresses. Senescence facilitates programming …

Targeting cellular senescence with senotherapeutics: senolytics and senomorphics

L Zhang, LE Pitcher, V Prahalad… - The FEBS …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of geroscience is that since ageing is the greatest risk factor for many diseases
and conditions, targeting the ageing process itself will have the greatest impact on human …

Cellular senescence in ageing: from mechanisms to therapeutic opportunities

R Di Micco, V Krizhanovsky, D Baker… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Cellular senescence, first described in vitro in 1961, has become a focus for biotech
companies that target it to ameliorate a variety of human conditions. Eminently characterized …

Senescence and the SASP: many therapeutic avenues

J Birch, J Gil - Genes & development, 2020 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Cellular senescence is a stress response that elicits a permanent cell cycle arrest and
triggers profound phenotypic changes such as the production of a bioactive secretome …

Senolytic drugs: from discovery to translation

JL Kirkland, T Tchkonia - Journal of internal medicine, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Senolytics are a class of drugs that selectively clear senescent cells (SC). The first senolytic
drugs Dasatinib, Quercetin, Fisetin and Navitoclax were discovered using a hypothesis …

The flavonoid procyanidin C1 has senotherapeutic activity and increases lifespan in mice

Q Xu, Q Fu, Z Li, H Liu, Y Wang, X Lin, R He… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Ageing-associated functional decline of organs and increased risk for age-related chronic
pathologies is driven in part by the accumulation of senescent cells, which develop the …