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ReviewAgeing research reviews2015

Programmed cell death in aging.

John Tower

Open access · greenAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Ageing research reviews, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 226 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
226citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
10.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

226 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 420 citations in OpenAlex.

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166 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

John TowerMolecular and Computational Biology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 1050 Childs Way, RRI 201, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2910, USA. Electronic address: jtower@usc.edu.
University of Southern California · US

Funding

Translational Research Support CoreP30ES007048 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Joseph Leo Wiemels · 1996 to 2026
$46.4M
AGING-SPECIFIC GENE EXPRESSION IN DROSOPHILAR01AG011833 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI TOWER, JOHN GERARD · 1994 to 2013
$2.8M
NIA NIH HHS AG011833NIA NIH HHS R01 AG011833NIEHS NIH HHS 5P30ES007048NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES007048
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Programmed cell death (PCD) pathways, including apoptosis and regulated necrosis, are required for normal cell turnover and tissue homeostasis. Mis-regulation of PCD is increasingly implicated in aging and aging-related disease. During aging the cell turnover rate declines for several highly-mitotic tissues. Aging-associated disruptions in systemic and inter-cell signaling combined with cell-autonomous damage and mitochondrial malfunction result in increased PCD in some cell types, and decreased PCD in other cell types. Increased PCD during aging is implicated in immune system decline, skeletal muscle wasting (sarcopenia), loss of cells in the heart, and neurodegenerative disease. In contrast, cancer cells and senescent cells are resistant to PCD, enabling them to increase in abundance during aging. PCD pathways limit life span in fungi, but whether PCD pathways normally limit adult metazoan life span is not yet clear. PCD is regulated by a balance of negative and positive factors, including the mitochondria, which are particularly subject to aging-associated malfunction.

Indexed as

AgingAnimalsApoptosisCell DeathCellular SenescenceHomeostasisHumansNeurodegenerative DiseasesAgingApoptosisMitochondriaNecrosisSarcopeniaSenescence

Identifiers

PMID25862945
PMCPMC4480161
OpenAlexW2054502486

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