Abstract
All living organisms are subject to progressive loss of function and damage to their tissues, a process known as aging. At the cellular level, the accumulation of damage to DNA, proteins, and organelles induces cellular senescence, a stress-response pathway that likely influences the aging process. Although the senescence arrest program was initially described in vitro, accumulating evidence suggests that this damage response program occurs in a variety of pathologic settings. This review discusses aspects of the senescence program, their interrelationships with damage arrest pathways, the cell cycle, and the impact of senescence in vivo.
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Bitto, A., Crowe, E.P., Lerner, C., Torres, C., Sell, C. (2014). The Senescence Arrest Program and the Cell Cycle. In: Noguchi, E., Gadaleta, M. (eds) Cell Cycle Control. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1170. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0888-2_8
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