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Rapamycin
For Rapamycin we have terms and definitions in 2 topics. The topics are Cancer and Huntingtons Disease.
Rapamycin (Cancer) 
A drug used to help prevent the body from rejecting organ and bone marrow transplants. It is also being studied as a treatment for cancer. Rapamycin belongs to the family of drugs called immunosuppressants. It is now called sirolimus.
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Rapamycin (Huntingtons Disease)
A drug that has been shown to promote the breakdown of huntingtin aggregates by inhibiting the protein mTOR and inducing autophagy.
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