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ReviewThe journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease2023

Translating the Biology of Aging into New Therapeutics for Alzheimer's Disease: Senolytics.

M Riessland, M E Orr

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Review in The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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33citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  10. Translational Geroscience Strategies for Delaying Multimorbidity.ACS pharmacology & translational science · 2026
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  14. Senescent fibroblasts drive CD8Journal of translational medicine · 2026
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  17. Senotherapeutics for Brain Aging Management.Neurology international · 2025
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  20. Evaluation of exploratory fluid biomarkers from a phase 1 senolytic trial in mild Alzheimer's disease.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

M RiesslandMiranda E. Orr, 575 Patterson Ave, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, Telephone Number: (336)716-7804, morr@wakehealth.edu.
M E Orr

Funding

San Antonio OAIC - Research Education Component (REC)P30AG044271 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI Adam Salmon, Elena Volpi · 2015 to 2026
$14.1M
Midwest Murine-Tissue Mapping Center (MM-TMC)U54AG079754 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI GR Scott Budinger, Sundeep Khosla · 2022 to 2026
$11.5M
Pepper OAIC Coordinating CenterU24AG059624 · NIA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI DALANE W KITZMAN · 2018 to 2026
$6.0M
Development of an Innovative Vervet (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) Model of Early Alzheimer's-like Neuropathology and SymptomatologyR24AG073199 · NIA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI CRAFT, SUZANNE, SHIVELY, CAROL A. · 2021 to 2024
$5.6M
Evaluating microtubule binding as a potential imaging biomarker for Alzheimer's diseaseR01AG065839 · NIA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI SOLINGAPURAM SAI, KIRAN · 2020 to 2024
$2.5M
High Resolution Profiling of Senescent Neurons and Their Microenvironments in Postmortem Human Brain Tissue Spanning Eight Decades of LifeR01AG068293 · NIA · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI ORR, MIRANDA ETHEL · 2020 to 2025
$2.0M
Molecular Assessment of Cause and Consequence of Cellular Senescence in Diverse Midbrain Cell Types in Parkinson's DiseaseR01NS124735 · NINDS · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI Markus Riessland · 2022 to 2026
$2.0M
Cell Senescence and Death in Neurodegenerative DiseasesR21NS125171 · NINDS · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MILLIGAN, CAROL, ORR, MIRANDA ETHEL · 2021 to 2021
$426k
BLRD VA I01 BX005717NIA NIH HHS R01 AG065839NIA NIH HHS R01 AG068293NIA NIH HHS R24 AG073199NIA NIH HHS U24 AG059624NIA NIH HHS U54 AG079754NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS124735NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS125171
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recent FDA-approval for amyloid lowering therapies reflects an unwavering commitment from the Alzheimer's disease (AD) research community to identify treatments for this leading cause of dementia. The clinical benefits achieved by reducing amyloid, though modest, provide evidence that disease modification is possible. Expanding the same tenacity to interventions targeting upstream drivers of AD pathogenesis could significantly impact the disease course. Advanced age is the greatest risk factor for developing AD. Interventions targeting biological aging offer the possibility of disrupting a foundational cause of AD. Senescent cells accumulate with age and contribute to inflammation and age-related diseases like AD. Senolytic drugs that clear senescent cells improve healthy aging, halt AD disease progression in animal models and are undergoing clinical testing. This review explores the biology of aging, the role of senescent cells in AD pathology, and various senotherapeutic approaches such as senolytics, dampening the SASP (senescence associated secretory phenotype), senescence pathway inhibition, vaccines, and prodrugs. We highlight ongoing clinical trials evaluating the safety and efficacy of the most advanced senolytic approach, dasatinib and quercetin (D+Q), including an ongoing Phase II senolytic trial supported by the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF). Challenges in the field of senotherapy for AD, including target engagement and biomarker development, are addressed. Ultimately, this research pursuit may lead to an effective treatment for AD and provide the field with another disease-modifying therapy to be used, alone or in combination, with other emerging treatment options.

Indexed as

Alzheimer DiseaseAgingAnimalsBiologyCellular SenescenceHumansSenotherapeuticsSenotherapeuticsAlzheimer’s diseasebiology of agingcellular senescencesenolyticstau

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PMID37874084
PMCPMC11103249

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