Screening Method for Identifying Toxicants Capable of Inducing Astrocyte Senescence

Toxicological Sciences : an Official Journal of the Society of Toxicology
Georgia Woods, Julie K Andersen

Abstract

Cellular senescence is a tumor-suppressive mechanism which leads to near irreversible proliferative arrest. However, senescent cells can cause tissue dysfunction, in large part because they express a senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) involving secretion of, amongst other factors, proinflammatory cytokines known to compromise neuronal health. Therefore, established neurotoxicants may cause neurotoxicity in vivo, in part by triggering mitotic cells in the brain to undergo senescence and adopt an inflammatory SASP which in turn could cause deleterious effects to surrounding neurons. To begin to address this hypothesis, we examined whether we could screen known neurotoxicants for their ability to cause astrocytes (a mitotic cell type especially important for maintaining neuronal health) to undergo senescence. For this purpose, we utilized inducible pluripotent stem cell-derived human astrocytes and screened an 80 compound neurotoxicant library provided by the Biomolecular Screening Branch of the NIEHS National Toxicology Program. Here we present a screening method based on induction of the senescent marker, senescent-associated beta-galactosidase (SA-β-gal). We describe in detail an automated method for the unbiased ...Continue Reading

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