{"id":87639,"date":"2019-02-11T10:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T18:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/removing-senescent-cells-improves-heart-health"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T18:02:23","slug":"removing-senescent-cells-improves-heart-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/removing-senescent-cells-improves-heart-health","title":{"rendered":"Removing Senescent Cells Improves Heart Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/removing-senescent-cells-improves-heart-health.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Newcastle University have shown that clearing out senescent cardiac muscle cells from the hearts of aged mice restores heart health.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that not a month goes by without a new study showing that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/senolytics\/\">senolytics<\/a>, drugs that remove aged and damaged cells from the body, improve organ or tissue function by reversing some aspects of aging. A new <a href=\"http:\/\/emboj.embopress.org\/content\/early\/2019\/02\/06\/embj.2018100492\">study<\/a> has shown that removing senescent cells from the hearts of old mice restores heart health and alleviates the detrimental effects of cardiac aging, including myocardial hypertrophy and fibrosis.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/removing-senescent-cells-improves-heart-health\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/removing-senescent-cells-improves-heart-health\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Newcastle University have shown that clearing out senescent cardiac muscle cells from the hearts of aged mice restores heart health. It seems that not a month goes by without a new study showing that senolytics, drugs that remove aged and damaged cells from the body, improve organ or tissue function by reversing some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87639","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\/87639","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}