[We find that (1) rapamycin is efficacious against PEL in culture and in a murine xenograft model; (2) mTOR, its activator Akt, and its target p70S6 kinase are phosphorylated in PEL; (3) rapamycin inhibits mTOR signaling as determined by S6 phosphorylation; (4) KSHV transcription is unaffected; (5) inhibition of IL-10 signaling correlates with drug sensitivity; and (6) addition of exogenous IL-10 or IL-6 can reverse the rapamycin growth arrest.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE