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Exposure for 7 days revealed that 200 \u00b5M ciprofloxacin, but not 200 \u00b5M moxifloxacin or 500 \u00b5M levofloxacin, induced a senescence-like phenotype characterized by increased senescence-associated \u03b2-galactosidase (SA-\u03b2-Gal) activity and an elevated senescence index (SI), which integrates increased cell size and autofluorescence measured by imaging flow cytometry. At 7 days, ciprofloxacin did not induce a broad canonical senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) at either the transcriptional or secretory level, consistent with a non-canonical senescence-like state; only a modest increase in IL-1\u03b2 secretion emerged after 14 days. The ciprofloxacin-induced phenotype was not accompanied by a robust increase in the canonical p53, p16, or p21 protein markers, but was associated with reduced retinoblastoma protein (RB) phosphorylation at Ser795. However, ciprofloxacin removal from the culture medium after 1 or 2 weeks of incubation resulted in the recovery of the resazurin signal to approximately control values by the end of the 3-week experimental period. Ciprofloxacin also increased oxidative stress, as assessed using dihydroethidium and dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate. Both the antioxidant Trolox and the mitochondria-targeted antioxidant SkQ3 attenuated the ciprofloxacin-induced increase in SA-\u03b2-Gal activity and SI. 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