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The senolytic cocktail, dasatinib and quercetin, impacts the chromatin structure of both young and senescent vascular smooth muscle cells.

Agnieszka Gadecka, Natalia Nowak, Edyta Bulanda, Dorota Janiszewska, Magdalena Dudkowska, Ewa Sikora, Anna Bielak-Zmijewska

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  9. The right time, the right cell: the potential for precision senotherapy in pulmonary arterial hypertension.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2026
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  13. Senolytic treatment induces oligodendrocyte dysfunction and demyelination in the corpus callosum.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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7 authors.

Agnieszka GadeckaLaboratory of Molecular Basis of Aging, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 3 Pasteur St., 02-093, Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-7548-9774
Natalia NowakLaboratory of Imaging Tissue Structure and Function, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of Polish Academy of Sciences, 3 Pasteur St., 02-093, Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-3140-2056
Edyta BulandaLaboratory of Molecular Basis of Aging, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 3 Pasteur St., 02-093, Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-8916-1569
Dorota JaniszewskaLaboratory of Molecular Basis of Aging, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 3 Pasteur St., 02-093, Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-0635-3299
Magdalena DudkowskaLaboratory of Molecular Basis of Aging, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 3 Pasteur St., 02-093, Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-3114-0597
Ewa SikoraLaboratory of Molecular Basis of Aging, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 3 Pasteur St., 02-093, Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-1111-1748
Anna Bielak-ZmijewskaLaboratory of Molecular Basis of Aging, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 3 Pasteur St., 02-093, Warsaw, Poland. a.bielak@nencki.edu.pl.ORCID 0000-0002-6330-4867

Funding

National Center of Science UMO-2016/21/B/NZ3/00370
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One promising strategy to alleviate aging symptoms is the treatment with senolytics that is compounds which selectively eliminate senescent cells. Some therapies aim to reduce symptoms of cellular senescence without senescent cell eradication (senomorphic activity). However, senotherapies raise many questions concerning the selectivity, safety and efficiency of senolitic drugs. A vital question is how the senolytic compounds affect young proliferating cells. In our study, we checked the impact of quercetin and dasatinib (D + Q), one of the promising drug mixtures of drugs, on chromatin structure in young and senescent cells. We analyzed the effect of a single and triple drug treatment on vascular smooth muscle cells. We have shown that D + Q impacts the chromatin in both young and senescent cells. In senescent cells, D + Q caused some symptoms of chromatin "rejuvenation" but in young cells some changes characteristic of senescent cells were observed. The alterations in young cells appeared only transiently and chromatin returned to the initial state after 24 h of recovery. The complexity of chromatin staining and nucleus morphology evaluation indicated that a triple treatment makes senescent cells more similar to the young ones than a single treatment. However, the analysis of senescence markers suggested that a single treatment with D + Q caused slightly less pronounced senescence characteristics and was more efficient in alleviating the features of senescence than a triple treatment. It is still an open question whether the alterations caused by D + Q are beneficial or harmful in the long term; however, so far, it can be concluded that the effects depend on cell type and the physiological context.

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Cellular SenescenceChromatinDasatinibMuscle, Smooth, VascularMyocytes, Smooth MuscleQuercetinSenotherapeuticsAnimalsCells, CulturedHumansChromatinDasatinibQuercetinSenotherapeuticsAgingChromatin structureD + QSenescenceSenolyticsVSMC

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PMCPMC12181558

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