Statins Block Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Pathway: a Possible Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Inflammatory, Malignant and Neurodegenerative Diseases

Overview

Journal Inflammopharmacology

Specialty Pharmacology

Date 2022 Dec 27

PMID 36574095

Authors

Naser-Aldin Lashgari

Nazanin Momeni Roudsari

Seyed Saeed Tamehri Zadeh

Saeideh Momtaz

Mitra Abbasifard

Zeljko Reiner

Amir Hossein Abdolghaffari

Amirhossein Sahebkar

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Abstract

Inflammation plays a critical role in several diseases such as cancer, gastric, heart and nervous system diseases. Data suggest that the activation of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway in epithelial cells leads to inflammation. Statins, the inhibitors of the 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA), seem to be able to inhibit the mTOR. Statins are considered to have favorable effects on inflammatory diseases by reducing the complications caused by inflammation and by regulating the inflammatory process and cytokines secretion. This critical review collected data on this topic from clinical, in vivo and in vitro studies published between 1998 and June 2022 in English from databases including PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, and Cochrane libraries.

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