PMID: 9192177Jan 1, 1997Paper

Aging and regulation of apoptosis

Current Topics in Cellular Regulation
H R Warner

Abstract

When Lockshin and Zakeri discussed the relevance of apoptosis to aging, the common view was that apoptosis had primarily a negative impact on aging by destroying essential and often irreplaceable cells. That view has now changed to one that acknowledges that there are two general ways in which apoptosis can play a role in aging: (1) elimination of damaged and presumably dysfunctional cells (e.g., fibroblasts, hepatocytes) which can then be replaced by cell proliferation, thereby maintaining homeostasis and elimination of essential postmitotic cells (e.g., neurons) which cannot be replaced, thereby leading to pathology. Evidence exists in two systems (fibroblasts and thymocytes/lymphocytes) that there are age-related decreases in the potential for apoptosis, although the molecular bases for these decreases appear to differ (Table II). Fibroblasts (and neurons?) lose the ability to downregulate bcl-2 in response to an apoptotic signal; thus, apoptosis is blocked even though an initiating signal has been received. In contrast, thymocytes/lymphocytes lack the ability to initiate the signal due to downregulation of the cell surface receptor Fas. There is limited information available for other tissue types, and nothing is known abou...Continue Reading

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