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mTOR Inhibition Role in Cellular Mechanisms.

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The mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors (mTOR-I), drugs widely used in transplant medicine and oncology, exert their function by inhibiting a serine/threonine kinase with a pivotal role in cellular metabolism and in a wide range of eukaryotic biological/cellular functions and signaling networks. Additionally, as largely described, the inhibition of mTOR has a major impact on cellular metabolism by stimulating synthesis of proteins and lipids, inhibiting catabolic processes, such as lysosome biogenesis and autophagy, and controlling cell survival, cytoskeleton organization, lipogenesis, and gluconeogenesis. All these biological functions are essential to guarantee body homeostasis and survival. Therefore, it is necessary for clinicians and researchers to better understand this complex pathway to ameliorate patients' treatment empathizing therapeutic effects to minimize/avoid toxicities and to propose new valuable research strategies.The aim of this article has been to underline the complexity of the mTOR pathway and to review the recent literature describing the consequences of its inhibition on several cellular functions including (a) protein synthesis, (b) cell cycle,

Year of Publication
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2018
Journal
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Transplantation
Volume
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102
Issue
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2S Suppl 1
Number of Pages
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S3-S16
ISSN Number
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0041-1337
URL
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http://Insights.ovid.com/pubmed?pmid=29369970
DOI
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10.1097/TP.0000000000001806
Short Title
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Transplantation
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