Novel nervous and multi-system regenerative therapeutic strategies for diabetes mellitus with mTOR

Neural Regeneration Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 372-385

  Maiese, Kenneth ^a  

^a Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Signaling   (United States)

Author keywords

Akt; Alzheimer s disease; AMP activated protein kinase (AMPK); Apoptosis; Autophagy; Cancer; Cardiovascular disease; Caspase; CCN family; Diabetes mellitus; Epidermal growth factor; Erythropoietin; Fibroblast growth factor; Forkhead transcription factors; FoxO; FRAP1; Hamartin (tuberous sclerosis 1) tuberin (tuberous sclerosis 2) (TSC1 TSC2); Insulin; Mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR); MTOR complex 1 (mT ORC1); MTOR complex 2 (mTORC2); Nicotinamide; Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+); Non communicable diseases; Oxidative stress; Phosphoinositide 3 kinase (PI 3 K); Programmed cell death; Silent mating type information regulation 2 homolog 1 (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) (SIRT1); Sirtuin; Stem cells; Wingless; Wnt; Wnt1 inducible signaling pathway protein 1 (WISP1); cell

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE KINASE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; SIRTUIN 1; WNT1 PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DEMENTIA; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HUMAN; INSULIN RELEASE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PROTEIN BINDING; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84962184463     PISSN: 16735374     EISSN: 18767958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1673-5374.179032     Document Type: Review

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