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), corroborated by Mayo Clinic press release and multiple independent secondary sources including a 2024 review article. [tier=silver indep_score=0.925 clusters=2 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://academic.oup.com/edrv/article/45/5/655/7631421 (corroboration)