Transplanting a small number of senescent cells into mice was enough to cause frailty and reduce their survival.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by original peer-reviewed Nature Medicine study (Xu et al. 2018) and corroborated by independent secondary sources including ScienceDaily and Cell Press commentary. [cascade flags: aggregator_dropped_primary_exists | tier=silver indep_score=1.0 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Los senolíticos mejoran la salud y prolongan la vida: resultados del ... (seed:health_and_medicine)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0092-9 (corroboration)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6082705/ (corroboration)
- https://www.cell.com/trends/molecular-medicine/fulltext/S1471-4914(18)30181-3 (corroboration)