Activation of the Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin in SLE: Explosion of Evidence in the Last Five Years

Current Rheumatology Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Oaks, Zachary ^a   Winans, Thomas ^a   Huang, Nick ^a   Banki, Katalin ^a   Perl, Andras ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti phospholipid antibodies; B cells; Kidney; Liver; Macrophages; Mechanistic target of rapamycin; Mitochondria; Systemic lupus erythematosus; T cells

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; RAPAMYCIN; ACETYLCYSTEINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MTOR PROTEIN, HUMAN; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE MARKER; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GROWTH REGULATION; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LIVER DISEASE; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TH17 CELL; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; METABOLISM; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; B-LYMPHOCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; SIROLIMUS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 84994311372     PISSN: 15233774     EISSN: 15346307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11926-016-0622-8     Document Type: Review

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