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Immune Surveillance of Senescent Cells
Cellular senescence involves a stable cell cycle arrest and a secretory program that modulates the tissue environment. In cancer, senescence acts as a potent barrier to tumorigenesis and, though many cancers evade senescence during the course of tumor evolution, ionizing radiation and conventional c...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8969825/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.952 |
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author | Lowe, Scott |
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description | Cellular senescence involves a stable cell cycle arrest and a secretory program that modulates the tissue environment. In cancer, senescence acts as a potent barrier to tumorigenesis and, though many cancers evade senescence during the course of tumor evolution, ionizing radiation and conventional chemotherapy can, to varying degrees, induce senescence in tumor cells leading to potent anticancer effects. Conversely, the aberrant accumulation of senescent cells can reduce regenerative capacity and lead to tissue decline, contributing to tissue pathologies associated with age or the debilitating side-effects of cancer therapy. Our laboratory studies mechanisms of cellular senescence with the ultimate goal of developing strategies to modulate senescence for therapeutic benefit. We have focused on how senescent cells trigger immune surveillance to facilitate their own elimination or, when that fails, how synthetic immune cells (i.e. CAR T cells) can be directed to eliminate senescent cells. Recent advances in understanding senescent cell surveillance by the immune system will be discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-89698252022-04-01 Immune Surveillance of Senescent Cells Lowe, Scott Innov Aging Abstracts Cellular senescence involves a stable cell cycle arrest and a secretory program that modulates the tissue environment. In cancer, senescence acts as a potent barrier to tumorigenesis and, though many cancers evade senescence during the course of tumor evolution, ionizing radiation and conventional chemotherapy can, to varying degrees, induce senescence in tumor cells leading to potent anticancer effects. Conversely, the aberrant accumulation of senescent cells can reduce regenerative capacity and lead to tissue decline, contributing to tissue pathologies associated with age or the debilitating side-effects of cancer therapy. Our laboratory studies mechanisms of cellular senescence with the ultimate goal of developing strategies to modulate senescence for therapeutic benefit. We have focused on how senescent cells trigger immune surveillance to facilitate their own elimination or, when that fails, how synthetic immune cells (i.e. CAR T cells) can be directed to eliminate senescent cells. Recent advances in understanding senescent cell surveillance by the immune system will be discussed. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8969825/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.952 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Lowe, Scott Immune Surveillance of Senescent Cells |
title | Immune Surveillance of Senescent Cells |
title_full | Immune Surveillance of Senescent Cells |
title_fullStr | Immune Surveillance of Senescent Cells |
title_full_unstemmed | Immune Surveillance of Senescent Cells |
title_short | Immune Surveillance of Senescent Cells |
title_sort | immune surveillance of senescent cells |
topic | Abstracts |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8969825/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.952 |
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