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Mechanisms of resistance to rapamycins.
Drug resistance updates : reviews and commentaries in antimicrobial and anticancer chemotherapy - 1 Dec 2001
Huang S, Houghton P J
Abstract excerpt
Rapamycins represent a novel family of anticancer agents, currently including rapamycin and its derivatives, CCI-779 and RAD001. Rapamycins inhibit the function of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), and potently suppress tumor cell growth by arresting cells in G1 phase or potentially inducing apoptosis of cells, in culture or in xenograft tumor models. However, recent data indicate that genetic mutations...
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