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ACTA NATURAE
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 4-14Publisher
RUSSIAN FEDERATION AGENCY SCIENCE & INNOVATION
DOI: 10.32607/20758251-2018-10-1-4-14
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antagonistic pleiotropy; cellular senescence; immune clearance; senescence-associated secretory phenotype; stem cells; tumor suppression; tumorigenesis
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- Russian Science Foundation [14-50-00068]
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Cellular senescence was first described as a failure of normal human cells to divide indefinitely in culture. Until recently, the emphasis in the study of cell senescence has been focused on the accompanying intracellular processes. The focus of the attention has been on the irreversible growth arrest and two important physiological functions that rely on it: suppression of carcinogenesis due to the proliferation loss of damaged cells, and the acceleration of organism aging due to the deterioration of the tissue repair mechanism with age. However, the advances of the past years have revealed that senescent cells can impact the surrounding tissue microenvironment, and, thus, that the main consequences of senescence are not solely mediated by intracellular alterations. Recent studies have provided evidence that a pool of molecules secreted by senescent cells, including cytokines, chemokines, proteases and growth factors, termed the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), via autocrine/paracrine pathways can affect neighboring cells. Today it is clear that SASP functionally links cell senescence to various biological processes, such as tissue regeneration and remodeling, embryonic development, inflammation, and tumorigenesis. The present article aims to describe the social life of senescent cells: basically, SASP constitution, molecular mechanisms of its regulation, and its functional role.
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