Reacquisition of a spindle cell shape does not lead to the restoration of a youthful state in senescent human skin fibroblasts.

Biogerontology
Adamantia PapadopoulouDimitris Kletsas

Abstract

Senescent fibroblasts are characterized by their inability to proliferate and by a pro-inflammatory and catabolic secretory phenotype, which contributes to age-related pathologies. Furthermore, senescent fibroblasts when cultured under classical conditions in vitro are also characterized by striking morphological changes, i.e. they lose the youthful spindle-like appearance and become enlarged and flattened, while their nuclei from elliptical become oversized and highly lobulated. Knowing the strong relation between cell shape and function, we cultured human senescent fibroblasts on photolithographed Si/poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) micro-patterned surfaces in order to restore the classical spindle-like geometry and subsequently to investigate whether the changes in senescent cells' morphology are the cause of their functional alterations. Interestingly, under these conditions senescent cells' nuclei do not revert to the classical elliptical phenotype. Furthermore, enforced spindle-shaped senescent cells retained their deteriorated proliferative ability, and maintained the increased gene expression of the cell cycle inhibitors p16Ink4a and p21Waf1. In addition, Si/PVA-patterned-grown senescent fibroblasts preserved their senescence-...Continue Reading

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