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Review
. 2023 May;66(5):893-1066.
doi: 10.1007/s11427-023-2305-0. Epub 2023 Apr 11.

Biomarkers of aging

Aging Biomarker ConsortiumHainan Bao #  1 Jiani Cao #  2 Mengting Chen #  3   4   5 Min Chen #  6   7   8 Wei Chen #  9 Xiao Chen #  10 Yanhao Chen #  11 Yu Chen #  12 Yutian Chen #  13 Zhiyang Chen #  14 Jagadish K Chhetri #  15 Yingjie Ding #  1   16 Junlin Feng #  17 Jun Guo #  18 Mengmeng Guo #  19 Chuting He #  16   20   21   22 Yujuan Jia #  23 Haiping Jiang #  2   16   21   22 Ying Jing #  24   25   26 Dingfeng Li #  27 Jiaming Li #  1   16 Jingyi Li #  16   20   21   22 Qinhao Liang #  28 Rui Liang #  29 Feng Liu #  30 Xiaoqian Liu #  2   16   21   22 Zuojun Liu #  31 Oscar Junhong Luo #  32 Jianwei Lv #  33 Jingyi Ma #  34 Kehang Mao #  35 Jiawei Nie #  36 Xinhua Qiao #  37 Xinpei Sun #  38 Xiaoqiang Tang #  39 Jianfang Wang #  40 Qiaoran Wang #  1   16 Siyuan Wang #  41 Xuan Wang #  42 Yaning Wang #  43   44 Yuhan Wang #  16   20   21   22 Rimo Wu #  45 Kai Xia #  46   47 Fu-Hui Xiao #  48   49 Lingyan Xu #  50 Yingying Xu #  1 Haoteng Yan #  24   25   26 Liang Yang #  51 Ruici Yang #  52 Yuanxin Yang #  53 Yilin Ying #  54   55 Le Zhang #  56   57 Weiwei Zhang #  58 Wenwan Zhang #  17 Xing Zhang #  59 Zhuo Zhang #  60   61 Min Zhou #  62 Rui Zhou #  63 Qingchen Zhu #  17 Zhengmao Zhu #  64   65 Feng Cao  66 Zhongwei Cao  67 Piu Chan  68 Chang Chen  69 Guobing Chen  70   71 Hou-Zao Chen  72 Jun Chen  73 Weimin Ci  74 Bi-Sen Ding  75 Qiurong Ding  76 Feng Gao  77 Jing-Dong J Han  78 Kai Huang  79   80   81   82 Zhenyu Ju  83 Qing-Peng Kong  84   85 Ji Li  86   87   88 Jian Li  89 Xin Li  90   91   92   93 Baohua Liu  94 Feng Liu  95 Lin Liu  96   97   98   99 Qiang Liu  100 Qiang Liu  101   102 Xingguo Liu  103 Yong Liu  104 Xianghang Luo  105 Shuai Ma  106   107   108   109 Xinran Ma  110 Zhiyong Mao  111 Jing Nie  112 Yaojin Peng  113   114   115 Jing Qu  116   117   118   119 Jie Ren  120   121   122 Ruibao Ren  123   124 Moshi Song  125   126   127   128 Zhou Songyang  129   130 Yi Eve Sun  131 Yu Sun  132   133 Mei Tian  134 Shusen Wang  135 Si Wang  136   137   138 Xia Wang  139 Xiaoning Wang  140 Yan-Jiang Wang  141 Yunfang Wang  142 Catherine C L Wong  143 Andy Peng Xiang  144   145 Yichuan Xiao  146 Zhengwei Xie  147   148 Daichao Xu  149 Jing Ye  150   151 Rui Yue  152 Cuntai Zhang  153   154 Hongbo Zhang  155   156 Liang Zhang  157   158 Weiqi Zhang  159   160   161 Yong Zhang  162   163 Yun-Wu Zhang  164 Zhuohua Zhang  165   166 Tongbiao Zhao  167   168   169   170 Yuzheng Zhao  171   172 Dahai Zhu  173   174 Weiguo Zou  175 Gang Pei  176 Guang-Hui Liu  177   178   179   180   181
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Review

Biomarkers of aging

Aging Biomarker Consortium et al. Sci China Life Sci. 2023 May.

Abstract

Aging biomarkers are a combination of biological parameters to (i) assess age-related changes, (ii) track the physiological aging process, and (iii) predict the transition into a pathological status. Although a broad spectrum of aging biomarkers has been developed, their potential uses and limitations remain poorly characterized. An immediate goal of biomarkers is to help us answer the following three fundamental questions in aging research: How old are we? Why do we get old? And how can we age slower? This review aims to address this need. Here, we summarize our current knowledge of biomarkers developed for cellular, organ, and organismal levels of aging, comprising six pillars: physiological characteristics, medical imaging, histological features, cellular alterations, molecular changes, and secretory factors. To fulfill all these requisites, we propose that aging biomarkers should qualify for being specific, systemic, and clinically relevant.

Keywords: aging; biomarker; clock; senescence.

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