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Techniques to Induce and Quantify Cellular Senescence
Published on: May 1, 2017
[Cellular senescence and survival of T lymphocytes]
F Schächter1, N Boucher, L Lesueur-Ginot
1Fondation Jean-Dausset, CEPH, Paris, France.
Abstract:
In order to study cellular senescence in T lymphocytes and its link with aging, we have undertaken long-term cultures from adult individuals (aged from 20 to 40) and centenarians. The proliferative advantage of CD4+ over CD8+ T cells is reversed after the second stimulation. Periodically stimulated cultures remained exponentially growing during nearly 200 days, whereas 2 of them that were continued for 300 days stopped proliferating. However, once this phase of senescence is reached, the cells do not die out. Six other cultures remained viable for 34 months without proliferation but with conservation of the cell number. Three of these cultures have clonal karyotypic abnormalities: trisomy 2 and telomeric fusions.
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