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Articlenpj aging2025

Senolytic compounds reduce epigenetic age of blood samples in vitro.

Vithurithra Tharmapalan, Miriam Du Marchie Sarvaas, Michael Bleichert, Martina Wessiepe, Wolfgang Wagner

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Article in npj aging, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Interrogating the regulatory epigenome of cellular senescence.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 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

5 authors.

Vithurithra TharmapalanInstitute for Stem Cell Biology, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, 52074, Aachen, Germany.
Miriam Du Marchie SarvaasInstitute for Stem Cell Biology, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, 52074, Aachen, Germany.
Michael BleichertInstitute for Stem Cell Biology, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, 52074, Aachen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-6675-1572
Martina WessiepeInstitute for Transfusion Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
Wolfgang WagnerInstitute for Stem Cell Biology, RWTH Aachen University Medical School, 52074, Aachen, Germany. wwagner@ukaachen.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1971-3217

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) 363055819/GRK2415; WA 1706/12-2 within CRU344/417911533; WA1706/14-1; SFB 1506/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Senolytic drugs raise the expectation that they can specifically eliminate a subset of senescent cells in a given tissue. In this study, we have exemplarily analyzed if a 3-day treatment of human blood samples in vitro would reduce age-associated biomarkers, with a particular focus on epigenetic age-predictions. Of eight tested compounds, JQ1, RG7112, nutlin-3a, and AMG232 reduced epigenetic age, indicating that this approach may be useful in drug screening for senolytic compounds.

Identifiers

PMID39905063
PMCPMC11794651

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