mTOR and cancer: Insights into a complex relationship

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 729-734

  Sabatini, David M ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AP 23573; CYCLIN D1; EVEROLIMUS; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN INHIBITOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; RAPAMYCIN; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; TEMSIROLIMUS; VASCULOTROPIN; VON HIPPEL LINDAU PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; CANCER; CELL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33747819801     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1974     Document Type: Review

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