Cellular senescence in Alzheimer’s disease: from physiology to pathology

Jing Zhu, Chongyun Wu, Luodan Yang · 2024

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Jing Zhu, Chongyun Wu, and Luodan Yang review the role of cellular senescence, the state in which cells stop dividing, in Alzheimer disease, in a 2024 paper. The disease is marked by amyloid buildup and tangled tau protein, yet drugs aimed at those marks have not yielded strong treatments. Attention has turned to aging cells as a driver of decline.

The review sums up what senescent cells do in health, their traits and markers, and the models used to study them. It walks through senescence in five brain cell types, from support cells to neurons. It closes with treatment ideas that clear or calm such cells, and the factors that push brain cells into that state.

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CREATORJing Zhu, Chongyun Wu, Luodan Yang
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE73 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11577763

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