{"id":162289,"date":"2023-04-16T16:23:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T21:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/boosting-bodys-antiviral-immune-response-may-eliminate-senescent-cells"},"modified":"2023-04-16T16:23:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T21:23:52","slug":"boosting-bodys-antiviral-immune-response-may-eliminate-senescent-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/boosting-bodys-antiviral-immune-response-may-eliminate-senescent-cells","title":{"rendered":"Boosting body\u2019s antiviral immune response may eliminate senescent cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/boosting-bodys-antiviral-immune-response-may-eliminate-senescent-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senescent cells are those that have stopped dividing but haven\u2019t read the \u201ctime to die\u201d memo. Instead, they hang around, accumulating in the body and fueling chronic inflammation \u2013 sometimes called inflammaging \u2013 which in turn, contributes to conditions such cardiovascular diseases, chronic kidney disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, sarcopenia and degenerative disorders.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Longevity. Technology: In mice, eliminating senescent cells from aging tissues can restore tissue balance and lead to an increased healthy lifespan. Now a team led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding member of Mass General Brigham (MGB), has found that the immune response to a virus that is ubiquitously present in human tissues can detect and eliminate senescent cells in the skin <\/em><\/strong>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(23)00211-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1<\/a>]<strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the study, which is published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(23)00211-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cell<\/a><\/em>, the scientists analyzed young and old human skin samples to learn more about the clearance of senescent cells in human tissue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senescent cells are those that have stopped dividing but haven\u2019t read the \u201ctime to die\u201d memo. Instead, they hang around, accumulating in the body and fueling chronic inflammation \u2013 sometimes called inflammaging \u2013 which in turn, contributes to conditions such cardiovascular diseases, chronic kidney disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, sarcopenia and degenerative disorders. Longevity. Technology: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}