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ReviewAgeing research reviews2021

How good is the evidence that cellular senescence causes skin ageing?

Evon Low, Ghazaleh Alimohammadiha, Lucy A Smith, Lydia F Costello, Stefan A Przyborski, Thomas von Zglinicki, Satomi Miwa

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Review in Ageing research reviews, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
57citing papers in PubMed
12.6field-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

57 citing papers in PubMed, 95 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Cellular Senescence Triggered by Food and Environmental Genotoxins.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  14. Exosome-Based Therapies in Dermatology.Aesthetic plastic surgery · 2025
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  15. Anti-Photoaging Effects of a Standardized Hot Water Extract ofPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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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

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Evon LowAgeing Biology Laboratories, Newcastle University Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5PL, UK.
Ghazaleh AlimohammadihaAgeing Biology Laboratories, Newcastle University Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5PL, UK.
Lucy A SmithDepartment of Biosciences, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.
Lydia F CostelloDepartment of Biosciences, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.
Stefan A PrzyborskiDepartment of Biosciences, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.
Thomas von ZglinickiAgeing Biology Laboratories, Newcastle University Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5PL, UK. Electronic address: t.vonzglinicki@ncl.ac.uk.
Satomi MiwaAgeing Biology Laboratories, Newcastle University Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5PL, UK.
Newcastle University · GBDurham University · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/S006710/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/S007431/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Skin is the largest organ of the body with important protective functions, which become compromised with time due to both intrinsic and extrinsic ageing processes. Cellular senescence is the primary ageing process at cell level, associated with loss of proliferative capacity, mitochondrial dysfunction and significantly altered patterns of expression and secretion of bioactive molecules. Intervention experiments have proven cell senescence as a relevant cause of ageing in many organs. In case of skin, accumulation of senescence in all major compartments with ageing is well documented and might be responsible for most, if not all, the molecular changes observed during ageing. Incorporation of senescent cells into in-vitro skin models (specifically 3D full thickness models) recapitulates changes typically associated with skin ageing. However, crucial evidence is still missing. A beneficial effect of senescent cell ablation on skin ageing has so far only been shown following rather unspecific interventions or in transgenic mouse models. We conclude that evidence for cellular senescence as a relevant cause of intrinsic skin ageing is highly suggestive but not yet completely conclusive.

Indexed as

Skin AgingAgingAnimalsCellular SenescenceMiceSkinageingsenescenceskinwound healing

Identifiers

PMID34487917
PMCPMC8524668
OpenAlexW3198408901

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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