senescent
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1. senescent - Adjective
2. senescent - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
growing old
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The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism - can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat?
Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.
It also regulates various growth signals, limiting lamin B1 expression on one hand (data not shown) and supporting dermal matrix protein synthesis (collagen I and elastin) on the other hand, even in senescent cells.
Dedicated to adult and mature skins, those plant cells show a decrease in fibroblasts senescence with a senescent rate cells of 17% and a significant increase of proteoglycans and collagen synthesis rates of more than 10%.