Recent advances and limitations of mTOR inhibitors in the treatment of cancer

ES Ali, K Mitra, S Akter, S Ramproshad, B Mondal… - Cancer cell …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The PI3K-Akt-mechanistic (formerly mammalian) target of the rapamycin (mTOR)
signaling pathway is important in a variety of biological activities, including cellular …

The mTOR signaling pathway in multiple sclerosis; from animal models to human data

AG Vakrakou, A Alexaki, ME Brinia… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
This article recapitulates the evidence on the role of mammalian targets of rapamycin
(mTOR) complex pathways in multiple sclerosis (MS). Key biological processes that intersect …

Autophagy modulators: mechanistic aspects and drug delivery systems

S Tavakol, M Ashrafizadeh, S Deng, M Azarian… - Biomolecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Autophagy modulation is considered to be a promising programmed cell death mechanism
to prevent and cure a great number of disorders and diseases. The crucial step in designing …

Progress in the Application of Drugs for the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis

W Wei, D Ma, L Li, L Zhang - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune and chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease
of the central nervous system (CNS), which gives rise to focal lesion in CNS and cause …

Relevance of autophagy and mitophagy dynamics and markers in neurodegenerative diseases

C Giorgi, E Bouhamida, A Danese, M Previati, P Pinton… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
During the past few decades, considerable efforts have been made to discover and validate
new molecular mechanisms and biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases. Recent …

The role of the immunosuppressive PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint pathway in the aging process and age-related diseases

A Salminen - Journal of Molecular Medicine, 2024 - Springer
The accumulation of senescent cells within tissues is a hallmark of the aging process.
Senescent cells are also commonly present in many age-related diseases and in the cancer …

Rapamycin alleviates the symptoms of multiple sclerosis in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) through mediating the TAM-TLRs-SOCS pathway

X Li, B Zhang, W Liu, M Sun, Y Zhang, H Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous
system (CNS). Our research aimed to find an immunomodulatory therapy for MS. An …

IL‐34 deficiency impairs FOXP3+ Treg function in a model of autoimmune colitis and decreases immune tolerance homeostasis

A Freuchet, A Salama, S Bézie… - Clinical and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Immune homeostasis requires fully functional Tregs with a stable phenotype to
control autoimmunity. Although IL‐34 is a cytokine first described as mainly involved in …

Implications of immunometabolism for smouldering MS pathology and therapy

S Bittner, K Pape, L Klotz, F Zipp - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
Clinical symptom worsening in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) is driven by
inflammation compartmentalized within the CNS, which results in chronic neuronal damage …

Contribution of metabolomics to multiple sclerosis diagnosis, prognosis and treatment

MG Rispoli, S Valentinuzzi, G De Luca… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Metabolomics-based technologies map in vivo biochemical changes that may be used as
early indicators of pathological abnormalities prior to the development of clinical symptoms …