Abstract
Ageing is accompanied by a progressive decline in stem cell function, resulting in less effective tissue homeostasis and repair. Here we discuss emerging invertebrate models that provide insights into molecular pathways of age-related stem cell dysfunction in mammals, and we present various paradigms of how stem cell functionality changes with age, including impaired self-renewal and aberrant differentiation potential.
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We apologize to those colleagues whose work could not be referenced directly owing to space constraints. D.L.J. is funded by the Emerald Foundation, the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, the ACS, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), and the NIH (R01 AG028092). T.A.R. is funded by the NIH (R37 AG23806, R01 AR056849 and an NIH Director's Pioneer Award), the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, the Department of Veterans Affairs (Merit Review) and the Amertical Federation for Aging Research (“Breakthroughs in Gerontology” (BIG) Award).
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Jones, D., Rando, T. Emerging models and paradigms for stem cell ageing. Nat Cell Biol 13, 506–512 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb0511-506
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