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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Valery Krizhanovsky
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-11954 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Cell 20080801 4
Cellular senescence acts as a potent mechanism of tumor suppression; however, its functional contribution to noncancer pathologies has not been examined. Here we show that senescent cells accumulate in murine livers treated to produce fibrosis, a precursor pathology to cirrhosis. The senescent cells are derived primarily from activated hepatic stellate cells, which initially proliferate in response to liver damage and produce the extracellular matrix deposited in the fibrotic scar. In mice lacki ...[more]