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Evidence for the involvement of mTOR inhibition and basal autophagy in familial Mediterranean fever phenotype.
Human immunology - 1 Feb 2011
Mitroulis Ioannis, Kourtzelis Ioannis, Kambas Konstantinos, Chrysanthopoulou Akrivi, Ritis Konstantinos
Abstract excerpt
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) inflammatory attacks are often triggered by metabolic or physical stress. mTOR signaling and autophagy modulate cellular responses to metabolic danger signals. In this study, we investigated the implication of mTOR inhibition and autophagy in FMF pathophysiology. mTOR inhibition induced MEFV gene expression in polymorphonuclear cells (PMNs) from healthy individuals, whereas it...
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