BARI spotlight: Hanna Marten’s review traces how matrix crosslinking, weak adhesions, and nuclear fragility feed senescence, and how that loop further degrades tissue mechanics. A clear case for resetting the aged mechanical niche. #aging #ECM
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The mechanisms and mechanics of aging
Summary: A Review of evidence suggesting that aging arises from progressive loss of mechanotransduction fidelity across the extracellular matrix (ECM)–cytoskeleton–nucleus axis, linking ECM remodeling...