Preserving youth: Does rapamycin deliver?

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 211, 2013, Pages

  Johnson, Simon C ^a   Martin, George M ^a,b   Rabinovitch, Peter S ^a   Kaeberlein, Matt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; RAPAMYCIN;

AGING; CELL AGING; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME INHIBITION; HEART DISEASE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART WEIGHT; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIFESPAN; LIVER FUNCTION; LONGEVITY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MAMMAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; SIROLIMUS;

EID: 84890045084     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3007316     Document Type: Review

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