senescent

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The piano in Le Caveau may be diabetic, senescent, and its operator half blind and all knuckles (as he is), but the music it gives forth is full of the romance of Sheppard and Turpin, of stage coach days and dark and nervous highways, of life when life was in the world and all the world was young Paris when your skies are greying, how many of us know you?

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  1. adjective Growing old; aging.

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  • Zhang Z, Tong T (2001) Characterization of regulatory elements on the promoter region of p16 (INK4a) that contribute to overexpression of p16 in senescent fibroblasts. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Rates of spontaneous translocation assessed during the serial growth of wild type and His+ recombinants recovered from ten independent wild type and senescent est2Δ / est2Δ cultures that carried the his3-Δ3′ substrate at either the —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • This indicates that spontaneous translocation formation occurs by the same conservative mechanism in wild type and senescent est2Δ / est2Δ homozygotes, regardless of the locations of the substrates. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Surprisingly, we found that with the his3-Δ3′ substrate at the CAN1 locus, the frequency of DSB-stimulated translocation in est2Δ / est2Δ homozygotes was reduced 12 - to 20-fold, regardless of whether the cells were from pre-senescent, senescent or post-senescent cultures. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Upon examining DSB-stimulated translocation in cells where the his3-Δ3′ substrate was at the HIS3 locus, we found that the est2Δ allele had a similar effect, as the frequency was reduced 14 - to 60-fold in the est2Δ / est2Δ homozygote regardless of whether the cells were pre-senescent, senescent or post-senescent. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
 

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  1. Latin senēscēns, senēscent-, present participle of senēscere, to grow old, inchoative of senēre, to be old, from senex, sen-, old; see sen- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Italian senescente, from Latin senescen (t-) s, present participle of senescere, grow old, from senere, be old, from senex, old: see senate.
 

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