mTOR Signaling: New Insights into Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases, Diabetes and Aging
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Biochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 44301
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cardioprotection against myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury with pharmacological agents, including mTOR inhibitor and phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor; myocardial pre- and post-conditioning; cardioprotective mechanism in diabetic heart; myocardial infarction; cardiac hypertrophy; heart failure; developing a novel pharmacotherapy against doxorubicin-induced or other anti-cancer drug-induced cardiotoxicity; role of nitric oxide, protein kinase G, mTOR signaling, STAT3 signaling, specific long-non-coding RNA, and microRNA in cardioprotection; inflammation; necrosis; apoptosis; autophagy
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The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR), an atypical multidomain serine/threonine kinase of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) related kinase family, elicits a significant role in integrating intracellular and environmental cues that orchestrate gene transcription, protein synthesis, tissue regeneration and repair, oxidative stress, cell metabolism, growth, proliferation, autophagy, apoptosis, survival, and longevity. Aberrant activation of mTOR is potentially associated with the etiology of many pathological conditions, including cancer, obesity and diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, pulmonary hypertension, and neurodegeneration. Based on its pathophysiological importance, the mTOR signaling pathway has attracted unprecedented attention among basic scientists and clinicians. mTOR is the core component of differently composed signaling complexes, mTORC1 and mTORC2, which phosphorylate distinct specific substrates. It is essential to extensively investigate the differential roles of mTORC1 and mTORC2 signaling pathways in human diseases, which could be targeted selectively or in combination, to develop potential therapeutic or nutraceutical interventions to prevent or treat severe diseases and extend life span.
The editors of this Special Issue welcome original research articles, reviews, meta-analyses/systematic reviews, or shorter perspective articles as well as novel technological approaches with an emphasis on the molecular aspects of mTOR signaling in metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and aging, which would advance our knowledge to develop novel therapeutic or nutraceutical strategies to treat many human diseases.
We look forward to your contributions to this Special Issue.
Dr. Flávio Reis
Dr. Anindita Das
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Aging
- Apoptosis and autophagy
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Diabetes and other metabolic diseases
- Gene targets and therapeutics
- Growth and proliferation
- Inflammation
- Kinases
- mTOR signaling
- Nutraceuticals
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