Endothelial Cell Senescence and Age-Related Vascular Diseases

Xiao-Li Tian; Yang Li

doi:10.1016/j.jgg.2014.08.001

Volume 41 Issue 9

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Endothelial Cell Senescence and Age-Related Vascular Diseases

doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2014.08.001

Department of Human Population Genetics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM), Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

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Corresponding author: E-mail address: xiaolitian2013@163.com (Xiao-Li Tian)
Received Date: 2014-06-09
Accepted Date: 2014-08-06
Rev Recd Date: 2014-07-31

Available Online: 2014-08-14

Publish Date: 2014-09-20

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Abstract

Advanced age is an independent risk factor for ageing-related complex diseases, such as coronary artery disease, stroke, and hypertension, which are common but life threatening and related to the ageing-associated vascular dysfunction. On the other hand, patients with progeria syndromes suffer from serious atherosclerosis, suggesting that the impaired vascular functions may be critical to organismal ageing, or vice versa. However, it remains largely unknown how vascular cells, particularly endothelial cell, become senescent and how the senescence impairs the vascular functions and contributes to the age-related vascular diseases over time. Here, we review the recent progress on the characteristics of vascular ageing and endothelial cell senescence in vitro and in vivo, evaluate how genetic and environmental factors as well as autophagy and stem cell influence endothelial cell senescence and how the senescence contributes to the age-related vascular phenotypes, such as atherosclerosis and increased vascular stiffness, and explore the possibility whether we can delay the age-related vascular diseases through the control of vascular ageing.
- Endothelial cell senescence,
- Genetic,
- Vascular ageing,
- Age-related diseases,
- Stem cell

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