Abstract
Cellular senescence is an important factor in aging and many age-related diseases, but understanding its role in health is challenging due to the lack of exclusive or universal markers. Using neural networks, we predict senescence from the nuclear morphology of human fibroblasts with up to 95% accuracy, and investigate murine astrocytes, murine neurons, and fibroblasts with premature aging in culture. After generalizing our approach, the predictor recognizes higher rates of senescence in p21-positive and ethynyl-2’-deoxyuridine (EdU)-negative nuclei in tissues and shows an increasing rate of senescent cells with age in H&E-stained murine liver tissue and human dermal biopsies. Evaluating medical records reveals that higher rates of senescent cells correspond to decreased rates of malignant neoplasms and increased rates of osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, hypertension and cerebral infarction. In sum, we show that morphological alterations of the nucleus can serve as a deep learning predictor of senescence that is applicable across tissues and species and is associated with health outcomes in humans.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Nature Aging |
Vol/bind | 2 |
Udgave nummer | 8 |
Sider (fra-til) | 742-755 |
Antal sider | 14 |
ISSN | 2662-8465 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2022 |
Bibliografisk note
Funding Information:This research was supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme (NNF17OC0027812), the Nordea Foundation (02-2017-1749), the Neye Foundation, the Lundbeck Foundation (R324-2019-1492), the Ministry of Higher Education and Science (0238-00003B), VitaDAO, Insilico Medicine and the U54 AG075932 grant from the National Institutes of Health. M.L.I. and M.G. were supported by the National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.
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