Cellular senescence a double-edged sword
Scientists have identified a molecular cause behind the ravages of old age and in doing so have also shown how a natural process for fighting cancer in younger persons can actually promote cancer in older individuals. Cellular senescence, the process by which biological cells stop dividing in resp...BIDMC scientists receive creativity awards from Prostate Cancer Foundation
...rd for his work on cellular senescence. "Cellular senescence is a process whereby cancer cells 'go to sleep irr...work which identified a previously unknown form of senescence in prostate cancer cells, Pandolfi will use specia...e cancer to evaluate chemical compounds to achieve senescence in the cancer stem cell population, which is known...Experimental Biology 2009 meets April 18-22
...ome integrity and cancer biology; clinical and pharmacogenomics aspects of HIV and AIDS; polypharmacology and drug repurposing; metabolic signaling in senescence and aging; elongation and termination; trafficking mechanisms and pathogen subversion; mechanisms for lipid storage and transport; development and adv...Genetics of aging and cancer resistance
...strated that older B lymphoid progenitor cells preferentially express p16(Ink4a) and Arf, which regulate cell cycle progression to effectively mediate senescence and tumor suppression in these aged cells. In contrast, myeloid progenitor cells consistently expressed much lower levels of these proteins. The ...Galderma Completes Tender Offer for CollaGenex
...nditions including: acne, rosacea, fungal nail infections, psoriasis & steroid-responsive dermatoses, pigmentary disorders, medical solutions for skin senescence and skin cancer. With a new research and development center in Sophia Antipolis, France, Galderma has one of the largest R&D facilities dedicated excl...Galderma Announces HSR Clearance for Its Proposal to Acquire CollaGenex Pharmaceuticals
...nditions including: acne, rosacea, fungal nail infections, psoriasis & steroid-responsive dermatoses, pigmentary disorders, medical solutions for skin senescence and skin cancer. With a new research and development center in Sophia Antipolis, France Galderma has one of the largest R&D facilities dedicated exclu...Gene Marker May Improve Odds of Stem Cell Therapies for Disease
...or-suppressor gene may provide a unique marker for senescence in Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in vitro, while a...d senescent MSCs drawn from rats in vitro. MSCs in senescence showed a downregulation, or decrease, in several g...inent RB protein. "By studying the process of senescence in MSCs we have arrived at new possibilities to im...Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards prestigious fellowships to 13 top young investigators
...ecting the body against cancer. His goals are to improve our understanding of this process. Dr. Hardy hopes to reveal ways by which oncogene-induced senescence can be exploited as a treatment for cancer. Kristina M. Herbert, PhD, with her sponsor Joan A. Steitz, PhD, at Yale University, New Haven, Connect...CSHL researchers identify gene that helps plant cells keep communication channels open
...n of GAT1 in plants caused them to take longer to produce flowers and enter senescence the period of old age. "People are generally interested in controlling senescence for commercial purposes such as growing plants that last longer or flowers ...Researchers discover that growing up too fast may mean dying young in honey bees
...otides and lipids. Organisms possess a variety of anti-oxidant mechanisms to mitigate the effects of ROS, and the oxidative stress model of aging and senescence suggests that physiological performance declines with age due to lifetime accrual of ROS-induced damage and progressively limited anti-oxidant capacit...Senescence in liver cells is found by CSHL scientists to help limit acute tissue damage
...ers, an analogous state in certain cells -- called senescence -- is proving to be one of ironic potency. Scient... conducted by the same CSHL team last year linking senescence in liver cells with the organ's ability to fight o...he first to establish a specific role for cellular senescence in a non-cancer pathology, and, the CSHL team note...Forests could benefit when fall color comes late
...nce and colleagues from Illinois, Wisconsin, Belgium, England, Estonia and Italy collected and analyzed data over two years on what they call autumnal senescence or the changing of colors and falling of leaves as photosynthesis decreases. They studied forests near Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and Tuscania, Italy. ...Wild chimpanzees appear not to regularly experience menopause
...individuals which had postulated that female chimpanzees reach reproductive senescence at 35 to 40 years of age. Together with recent data from wild gorillas a... the researchers write in Current Biology. "This suggests that reproductive senescence in chimpanzees, unlike in humans, is consistent with the somatic aging proc...Short chromosomes put cancer cells in forced rest
... there in permanent rest," says Greider. Greider, who won the Lasker Award in 2006 for her discovery of telomerase, says further study of the road to senescence should suggest new ways of preventing or treating cancer by interfering safely with telomerase and the cell-suicide system. ...Turning a cellular sentinel into a cancer killer
...tead, we saw evidence for a very different process that p53 also regulates—senescence, or growth arrest. What really excited us was evidence that this senescence somehow triggered the innate immune system to kill the tumor cells." Involvement of the innate immune system suggests there may be an unknown mechanis...Why don't all moles progress to melanoma?
...d by the ER in melanocytes with these cancer-causing mutations is premature senescence ?a form of "suspended animation" that stops the cell cycle and keeps cells ... study, Soengas and colleagues found that certain oncogenes use a different senescence mechanism, which doesn't activate the ER, to block the transformation of me...Telik Reports Preclinical Results at AACR Annual Meeting
...to the activation of the DNA damage-response pathway, and produced G2/M cell cycle arrest in human solid tumor cell lines. The resulting apoptosis or senescence of these cells may depend on their p53 status. In vivo, TLK58747 demonstrated significant antitumor activity both orally and parenterally agai...Galderma Completes Acquisition of CollaGenex
...nditions including: acne, rosacea, fungal nail infections, psoriasis & steroid-responsive dermatoses, pigmentary disorders, medical solutions for skin senescence and skin cancers. With a research and development center in Sophia Antipolis, France Galderma has one of the largest R&D facilities dedicated exclusiv...Senex Biotechnology Announces Presentation of Alzheimer's Disease Drug Discovery Effort
...n Albany, NY, which is developing drugs against cancer and major diseases of old age, by targeting signaling pathways activated in the process of cell senescence (aging). Cautionary Statement Some of the statements included in this press release, particularly those anticipating future the financial performanc...DNA Damage and Repair - Quantification of Sub-Cellular Events Using Automated Confocal Imaging
... DNA repair mechanisms is of great interest in the study of cancer prevention and treatment. In addition, this process has been implicated in cellular senescence and aging (Sedelnikova et al. 2004). Following induction of DNA double strand breaks, the specialized histone protein H2AX becomes phosphorylated an...The QIAGEN Guide to Animal Cell Culture
...mmend using cells with a low passage number (<50 splitting cycles). To safeguard against instability in continuous cell lines, avoid senescence or transformation in finite cell lines, and maintain consistency in transfection experiments, we recommend creating cell banks by fr...The QIAGEN Guide to Animal Cell Culture
...issue. These cultures are capable of only a limited number of cell divisions, after which they enter a nonproliferative state called senescence and eventually die out. Adherent primary cells are particularly susceptible to contact inhibition, that is, they will stop growing w...Senescence Colorimetric Assay Kit from BioVision
Description:... Designed to histochemically detect specific senescence marker in distinct pH in cultured cells and tissue sections. The specific marker is only present in senescent cells (not found in presenescent/quiesce...