| Literature DB >> 22329645 |
Stefano Giaimo1, Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna.
Abstract
It is generally accepted that the permanent arrest of cell division known as cellular senescence contributes to aging by an antagonistic pleiotropy mechanism: cellular senescence would act beneficially early in life by suppressing cancer, but detrimentally later on by causing frailty and, paradoxically, cancer. In this review, we show that there is room to rethink this common view. We propose a critical appraisal of the arguments commonly brought in support of it, and we qualitatively analyse published results that are of relevance to understand whether or not cellular senescence-associated genes really act in an antagonistic-pleiotropic manner in humans.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22329645 DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2012.00807.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Aging Cell ISSN: 1474-9718 Impact factor: 9.304