David Sinclair· PhD
More evidence that senescent cells cause aging and disease 👏🏻
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More evidence that senescent cells cause aging and disease 👏🏻
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Eventually, they become senescent zombie cells that accelerate the process.
They are kind of like a dead cell but instead of dying they sit around and secrete pro-inflammatory compounds that accelerate aging in nearby tissue.
when the cell accumulates enough damage as we age it accumulates more and more damage that cell eventually becomes what's called senescent and ccent cells aren't cells that are they're not alive but they're not dead they're kind of just sitting around inside of a tissue or an organ and they're secreting these pro-inflammatory molecules and cyto kindes that are damaging other nearby cells accelerating the aging process and causing them to become ccent