Rapamycin restores brain vasculature, metabolism, and blood-brain barrier in an inflammaging model

RA Towner, R Gulej, M Zalles, D Saunders, N Smith… - Geroscience, 2021 - Springer
Rapamycin (RAPA) is found to have neuro-protective properties in various
neuroinflammatory pathologies, including brain aging. With magnetic resonance imaging …

Rapamycin inhibits lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroinflammation in vitro and in vivo

NS Mengke, B Hu, QP Han… - Molecular …, 2016 - spandidos-publications.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of progressive neurodegenerative
disorder, and is responsible for the most common form of dementia in the elderly …

Rapamycin alleviates brain edema after focal cerebral ischemia reperfusion in rats

W Guo, G Feng, Y Miao, G Liu, C Xu - Immunopharmacology and …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Brain edema is a major consequence of cerebral ischemia reperfusion. However, few
effective therapeutic options are available for retarding the brain edema progression after …

Rapamycin suppresses Aβ25–35-or LPS-induced neuronal inflammation via modulation of NF-κB signaling

YC Liu, XX Gao, L Chen, X You - Neuroscience, 2017 - Elsevier
Rapamycin (RAPA), an inhibitor of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), exhibits a high
neuroprotective action against neurodegenerative diseases in mouse models. Since …

Anti-inflammatory agent, OKN-007, reverses long-term neuroinflammatory responses in a rat encephalopathy model as assessed by multi-parametric MRI …

RA Towner, D Saunders, N Smith, R Gulej, T McKenzie… - Geroscience, 2019 - Springer
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)–induced encephalopathy induces neuroinflammation. Long-term
neuroinflammation is associated with aging and subsequent cognitive impairment (CI). We …

Rapamycin pretreatment alleviates cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury in dose-response manner through inhibition of the autophagy and NFκB pathways in rats

L Li, J Huang - Dose-Response, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Although rapamycin can attenuate cerebral ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury, the potential
roles of rapamycin on cerebral I/R injury remain largely controversial. The present work aims …

Rapamycin protects neurons from brain contusion‑induced inflammatory reaction via modulation of microglial activation

Q Song, D Xie, S Pan, W Xu - Molecular Medicine …, 2015 - spandidos-publications.com
The inflammatory reaction is important in secondary injury following traumatic brain injury
(TBI). Rapamycin has been demonstrated as a neuroprotective agent in a mouse model of …

Rapamycin upregulates glutamate transporter and IL-6 expression in astrocytes in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease

Y Zhang, X He, X Wu, M Lei, Z Wei, X Zhang… - Cell death & …, 2017 - nature.com
Rapamycin protects mice against 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1, 2, 3, 6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-
induced loss of dopaminergic neurons, which is an established model for Parkinson's …

Rapamycin ameliorates brain metabolites alterations after transient focal ischemia in rats

A Chauhan, U Sharma, NR Jagannathan… - European Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Rapamycin has been shown to protect against middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAo)
induced ischemic injury. In this study, the neuroprotective effect of rapamycin on the …

Rapamycin preconditioning attenuates transient focal cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury in mice

L Yin, S Ye, Z Chen, Y Zeng - International Journal of Neuroscience, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Rapamycin, an mTOR inhibitor and immunosuppressive agent in clinic, has protective
effects on traumatic brain injury and neurodegenerative diseases. But, its effects on transient …