Cell

How aging brain cells relate to brain structure

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Abstract

Essence

Brain cellular senescence signatures were linked to brain structure, especially volume-related features in excitatory neurons and microglia.

Evidence

This integrative neuroimaging and molecular expression analysis used prefrontal cortex tissue from neurosurgery patients and replicated cell-type-specific signatures in independent datasets, including a brain gene expression dataset from individuals below 5 years of age.

Caveat

The work maps molecular correlations across datasets rather than showing that senescence directly causes brain atrophy or developmental brain-structure differences.

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Funding

Competing interests

Declaration of interests B.H.K. is a consultant for Medtronic, Abbott, and Turning Medical. G.M.M. is an employee of BPGbio and has stock options in BPGbio. P.S., R.S., N.M.C., N.R.N., and M.A.K. are employees of BPGbio.
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