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Rapamycin ameliorates PKD resulting from conditional inactivation of Pkd1.
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN - 1 Mar 2010
Shillingford Jonathan M, Piontek Klaus B, Germino Gregory G, Weimbs Thomas
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Aberrant activation of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway occurs in polycystic kidney disease (PKD). mTOR inhibitors, such as rapamycin, are highly effective in several rodent models of PKD, but these models result from mutations in genes other than Pkd1 and Pkd2, which are the prim...
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