senescent in a sentence
pronunciation: [ [ si'nesənt ] ]
Examples
- This is due to a positive role of senescent cells during tissue repair.
- An engineered suicide gene was used in transgenic mice to delete senescent cells.
- The criticism, of which there was a good deal, already seems senescent.
- Protein turnover is believed to decrease with age in all senescent organisms including humans.
- Nonetheless, the number of senescent cells in tissues rises substantially during normal aging.
- Another identifying feature is the senescent red leaves.
- The leaves turn red when senescent, hence the common name of bleeding heart.
- Eliminating senescent cells increases the amount of time that mice are free of disease.
- The presence of senescent cells also restrains fibrosis.
- In culture, fibroblasts can reach a maximum of 50 cell divisions before becoming senescent.