Research Perspective Volume 4, Issue 7 pp 450—455
Tumor suppression by p53 without apoptosis and senescence: conundrum or rapalog-like gerosuppression?
- 1 Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
Received: July 15, 2012 Accepted: July 30, 2012 Published: July 31, 2012
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.100475How to Cite
Abstract
I discuss a very obscure activity of p53, namely suppression of senescence (gerosuppression), which is also manifested as anti-hypertrophic, anti-hypermetabolic, anti-inflammatory and anti-secretory effects of p53. But can gerossuppression suppress tumors?