ReviewAgeing research reviews2022
Stress and telomere shortening: Insights from cellular mechanisms.
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211 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 339 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Evidence-Based Pathways to Healthy Aging: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Lifestyle Interventions for Longevity and Well-Being.Investigacion y educacion en enfermeria · 2025Pooled it
- Exploring the association between depression and telomere length: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Highlights a Link Between Aerobic Fitness and Telomere Maintenance.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2025Pooled it
- Is Hormone Replacement Therapy a Risk Factor or a Therapeutic Option for Alzheimer's Disease?International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Pooled it
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- Workplace stress and healthy aging: assessment strategies, research hypotheses, and pilot insights from the Semmelweis study.GeroScience · 2026Review
- From cell to disease: Regulatory networks and mechanisms of super‑enhancers in aging (Review).Molecular medicine reports · 2026Review
- The ageing holobiont: crosstalk between telomere dynamics, oxidative stress and the gut microbiome.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
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- Chlorogenic acid attenuates skin senescence and UVR-induced photoaging via the modulation of mitochondrial function.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Article
- Nocturnal Dim Blue Light Is Associated with Splenic Immune Dysregulation and Altered CORT-GR Signalling in High-Fat-Diet-Fed Mice.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The effect of the integrated stress response reduction intervention on cellular aging in middle-aged nurses: a pilot study.BMC nursing · 2026Article
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- A genomic structural equation modelling analysis of the shared genetic architecture of the aging spine.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026Article
- The aging paradox of Cushing's syndrome: Stress without clear senescence?Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2026Review
- Geroprotective effects of bioactive compounds against hydroquinone toxicity in Drosophila melanogaster: an in vivo and in silico insight.Biogerontology · 2026Article
- T-Cell Immunosenescence in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Perspectives.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2026Review
- Exposure to Endocrine Disruptors and Stress Hormones Across Pregnancy Trimesters: Links with Maternal Telomere Length.Journal of xenobiotics · 2026Article
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Abstract
Short telomeres confer risk of degenerative diseases. Chronic psychological stress can lead to disease through many pathways, and research from in vitro studies to human longitudinal studies has pointed to stress-induced telomere damage as an important pathway. However, there has not been a comprehensive model to describe how changes in stress physiology and neuroendocrine pathways can lead to changes in telomere biology. Critically short telomeres or the collapse of the telomere structure caused by displacement of telomere binding protein complex shelterin elicit a DNA damage response and lead to senescence or apoptosis. In this narrative review, we summarize the key roles glucocorticoids, reactive oxygen species (ROS) and mitochondria, and inflammation play in mediating the relationship between psychological stress and telomere maintenance. We emphasis that these mediators are interconnected and reinforce each other in positive feedback loops. Telomere length has not been studied across the lifespan yet, but the initial setting point at birth appears to be the most influential point, as it sets the lifetime trajectory, and is influenced by stress. We describe two types of intergenerational stress effects on telomeres - prenatal stress effects on telomeres during fetal development, and 'telotype transmission" -the directly inherited transmission of short telomeres from parental germline. It is clear that the initial simplistic view of telomere length as a mitotic clock has evolved into a far more complex picture of both transgenerational telomere influences, and of interconnected molecular and cellular pathways and networks, as hallmarks of aging where telomere maintenance is a key player interacting with mitochondria. Further mechanistic investigations testing this comprehensive model of stress mediators shaping telomere biology and the telomere-mitochondrial nexus will lead to better understanding from cell to human lifespan aging, and could lead to anti-aging interventions.
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