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Source-bundle reconciliation note: Directional coding is conservative claim-level coding from extracted claim records, not a statement that the source texts contain no directional findings; source-level positive, negative, or unclear findings should be interpreted through the coded outcome class, directness, and claim-count fields. 29/30 retained sources are indirect, review-level, adjacent, or mechanistic and are used only to bound interpretation. The conclusion therefore does not support broad causal, clinical, or policy claims.\n\nThis synthesis tests the thesis that evidence for Rapamycin Biomarker Effects is context-dependent, separating outcome-specific signals from broader claims and identifying the evidence gaps that should bound interpretation.\n\nRapamycin, an mTOR inhibitor, is increasingly investigated for potential geroprotective and biomarker-modulating effects, yet its clinical translation from preclinical models remains contested.\n\nThis synthesis employed an AI-assisted structured evidence synthesis with an audit trail to integrate findings across 30 curated reference papers spanning preclinical, observational, and randomized controlled trial designs.\n\nAcross outcome classes, cross-study disagreements were identified, with null findings dominating contextual and safety outcomes while context-specific signals concentrated in preclinical longevity and immune biomarker domains.\n\nThe current evidence supports mechanistic plausibility for rapamycin's geroprotective effects but falls short of establishing clinical biomarker efficacy, as human randomized trials show largely null or mixed results on conventional healthspan endpoints.\n\nInterpretation below therefore separates primary clinical-trial evidence from review-level, preclinical, and other indirect evidence.\n\n## Methods\n\n### Review type and protocol\nThis manuscript is reported as a Evidence brief. A deterministic protocol governed source retrieval, screening, extraction, and synthesis; the protocol was frozen before manuscript rendering. The full audit trail is in the supplementary `methods_pack.json` and the timestamped submission directory `synthesis-rapamycin_biomarker_effects-v06-DAILY-2026-06-06T20-31-17Z-R2`.\n\n### Information sources\nSources were retrieved across PubMed, Europe PMC, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, DOAJ, OpenAIRE, PMC OAI, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Retrieval window: 2026-06-06.\n\n### Search strategy\nThe following topic-anchored queries were executed against the information sources listed above:\n\n- `rapamycin biomarker effects aging`\n- `rapamycin biomarker effects older adults`\n- `rapamycin biomarker effects randomized controlled trial`\n- `rapamycin aging`\n- `rapamycin older adults`\n- `rapamycin randomized controlled trial`\n- `biomarker aging`\n- `biomarker older adults`\n- `biomarker randomized controlled trial`\n\n### Eligibility criteria\n- Sources whose primary content addresses rapamycin biomarker effects.\n- Sources with extractable quantitative or qualitative findings.\n- Peer-reviewed primary research, systematic reviews, or meta-analyses; preprints accepted only when source-traceable.\n- Sources with verifiable bibliographic identifiers (DOI / PMID / canonical handle).\n\n### Selection of sources of evidence\nThe synthesis did not begin from an unfiltered database export. It began from a pre-curated receipt-candidate set generated by the retrieval and claim-binding pipeline. Of 1448 records in the receipt-candidate union, 525 were classified as source candidates and 30 were admitted as traceable synthesis sources. Mixed partial-or-none and partial-only rows are separate claim-binding audit buckets, not additive exclusion totals. No additional records were excluded after final source admission.\n\n### source admission funnel\n\n| Admission bucket | n |\n|---|---:|\n| Receipt candidate union | 1448 |\n| Classified source candidates | 525 |\n| No extractable claims | 349 |\n| None-only claim binding | 107 |\n| Mixed partial-or-none claim-binding candidates | 337 |\n| Partial-only claim-binding candidates | 89 |\n| Strict high-confidence sources | 41 |\n| Admitted final sources | 30 |\n\n### Exclusion reasons\n- Non-traceable findings (claim could not be linked to source text): 0 records.\n- Wrong population / off-topic sources excluded at screening.\n- Duplicate records deduplicated by DOI / PMID before screening.\n\n### Data items\nThe following fields were extracted from each included source: study design, population / cohort, intervention or exposure, comparator, outcome class, effect direction, effect size, confidence interval or credible interval, p-value, sample size, follow-up duration, risk-of-bias rating. Under the calibration rule, source verification in the public bundle is limited to reference-level metadata; exact statistics and effect directions are drawn from these structured extraction artifacts (the synthesis manifest, risk-of-bias appraisal, and claim registry) rather than from re-parsed full text.\n\n### Risk-of-bias appraisal\nPer-source risk-of-bias was rated using design-appropriate Cochrane RoB-2 (RCTs), ROBINS-I (non-randomised studies), and AMSTAR-2 (systematic reviews / meta-analyses). Ratings recorded in `risk_of_bias.json`.\n\n### Synthesis approach\nEvidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (cardiometabolic, contextual adjacent evidence, dosing and pharmacokinetics, immune and inflammation, longevity, safety and comorbidity); within-class agreement, disagreement, and directness gaps surfaced explicitly. Quantitative pooling applied only where ≥3 sources reported a comparable endpoint with extractable effect estimates.\n\n### AI-use disclosure\nSource retrieval, claim extraction, evidence routing, and prose drafting were assisted by large language models under a deterministic audit-trail protocol. Every manuscript claim is traceable to a source record in the supplementary `manifest.json`. Final eligibility and interpretation decisions are author-verified.\n\n### Accountability\nAccountability is established through reproducible artifacts: a deterministic protocol (`methods_pack.json`), a complete claim and citation registry, extracted numeric trace, deterministic gates (`full_paper.journal_surface.json`, `pre_submit_gate.json`, `artifact_consistency.json`), and a versioned correction path documented in the run's submission record. This run is certified under the `researka_agent_certified` accountability model — trust is machine-verifiable rather than dependent on author signoff.\n\n## Results\n\n**Outcome-class note:** Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence; these sources bound scope, safety, methods, and translation rather than serving as equal-weight support for the main efficacy claim.\n\n| Evidence domain | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=18; claims=1232 | no extracted directional signal in 12/18 sources | 1 direct; 10 indirect; 7 mechanistic | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Immune and Inflammation | n=4; claims=167 | positive signal in 2/4 sources | 3 indirect; 1 mechanistic | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Cardiometabolic | n=2; claims=21 | no extracted directional signal in 2/2 sources | 2 indirect | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Dosing and Pharmacokinetics | n=2; claims=120 | no extracted directional signal in 1/2 sources | 1 indirect; 1 mechanistic | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Longevity | n=2; claims=12 | unclear signal in 1/2 sources | 2 mechanistic | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Safety and Comorbidity | n=2; claims=215 | no extracted directional signal in 2/2 sources | 1 indirect; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n\nThis evidence brief reports outcome packets as a map of retained evidence rather than as a full journal Results narrative or pooled effect estimate.\n\n### Contextual Adjacent Evidence Outcomes\n\n18 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: mixed=1, negative=1, null=12, positive=2, unclear=2. Directness coding: direct=1, indirect=10, mechanistic=7.\n\n### Immune Inflammation Outcomes\n\n4 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=2, positive=2. Directness coding: indirect=3, mechanistic=1.\n\n### Cardiometabolic Outcomes\n\n2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=2. Directness coding: indirect=2.\n\n### Dosing Pharmacokinetics Outcomes\n\n2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: mixed=1, null=1. Directness coding: indirect=1, mechanistic=1.\n\n### Longevity Outcomes\n\n2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1, unclear=1. Directness coding: mechanistic=2.\n\n### Safety Comorbidity Outcomes\n\n2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=2. Directness coding: indirect=1, review=1.\n\n## Limitations\n\n**Verification note:** Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim.\n\nSeveral outcome domains in the corpus rest on single-study evidence, which precludes internal replication and inflates the risk that observed effects are idiosyncratic to a particular design, population, or analytic approach. Likewise, airway inflammation and emphysema attenuation were demonstrated exclusively in Tian 2026 using ozone-exposed mice treated with intraperitoneal rapamycin at 0.6 mg/kg, and cardiac function preservation in autoimmune myocarditis was reported only by Zhuang 2025, who showed rapamycin reprogrammed Cxcl9+ macrophages via the mTORC1–C/EBPβ–OSM axis. Cardiac proteomic remodeling was studied only by Dai 2014, who used deuterated-leucine labeling over 10 weeks of rapamycin exposure, while the longevity-in-Drosophila pathway was examined solely by Bjedov 2010. The ME/CFS fatigue endpoint was explored in only Ruan 2025, a pilot study administering 6 mg/week rapamycin with symptom assessments at days 30, 60, and 90. In each of these cases, a single source cannot establish whether the effect is robust across independent laboratories, species, or populations. This single-trial limitation is not confined to minor outcomes: the cross-study disagreement map documents severity-3 or severity-4 disagreements for the contextual other outcome class across 161 non-orthogonal pairs, yet many of these tensions involve one or both arms supported by only a single study, making adjudication between conflicting signals impossible within the current corpus.\n\nThe population base of the curated trials narrows external validity in several ways that cannot be resolved by pooling alone. Preclinical sources — including Bitto 2016 (middle-aged mice), Harrison 2009 (genetically heterogeneous mice), Miller 2014 (dose-response in mice), Tian 2026 (ozone-exposed mice), and Pell 2026 (female mice with early-life seizures) — collectively dominate the longevity and mechanistic outcome classes, yet interspecies translation of mTOR inhibition remains uncertain because murine mTOR signaling kinetics, rapamycin pharmacokinetics, and lifespan architecture differ from those of humans. Stanfield 2026 tested once-weekly sirolimus at 6 mg in older adults already engaged in a 13-week exercise program, which introduces a selection bias toward motivated, physically active participants who may not represent the sedentary majority at risk for age-related decline. No study in the corpus enrolled pregnant individuals, persons with severe renal or hepatic impairment, or immunocompromised populations such as organ-transplant recipients on concurrent immunosuppression, leaving safety and efficacy in these vulnerable groups entirely uncharacterized. Consequently, the synthesis conclusions apply most directly to middle-aged to older, relatively healthy adults or to murine models, and extrapolation beyond these groups requires assumptions that the present evidence cannot anchor.\n\nThe endpoint scope of the corpus is heavily weighted toward mechanistic, surrogate, and contextual outcomes rather than clinically meaningful endpoints validated against hard disease outcomes, which introduces a translation gap that should be made explicit. No source in the curated set measured incident type 2 diabetes, fracture incidence, hospitalization for heart failure, or time-to-progression of any cancer as a primary endpoint; the cardiometabolic class is represented only by Zhang 2021 and Su 2025, both mechanistic studies examining BCRP-mediated drug resistance and MAGEA3 biomarkers rather than patient-centered outcomes. Rosario 2023 investigated rapamycin's attenuation of PI3K signaling in human ovarian cortex in vitro, providing mechanistic evidence for fertility preservation, but no clinical trial in the corpus reported on pregnancy rates, ovarian reserve markers such as anti-Müllerian hormone trajectory, or time-to-conception in women receiving rapamycin. A broader methodological concern is that several sources relied on surrogate endpoints whose clinical validity for the aging context is unestablished: as noted in the general methodological literature (Ioannidis 2005), surrogate associations do not guarantee hard-outcome validity. Hallmarks such as senescence-associated secretory phenotype suppression (Wang 2017) and mTOR-pathway phosphorylation changes (Hibbert 2026) are biologically informative but remain at least one mechanistic step removed from endpoints that patients or clinicians would recognize as meaningful improvements in survival, disability, or quality of life. Until the evidence base includes trials that bridge from these mechanistic surrogates to validated clinical endpoints, the risk-benefit calculus for off-label rapamycin use in healthy adults remains fundamentally unresolved.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nFor rapamycin biomarker effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation.The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging.\n\n## What This Synthesis Adds\n\nThis synthesis maps 30 included sources on Rapamycin Biomarker Effects across 6 outcome classes and 161 cross-study disagreements. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit.\n\nAcross 30 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Rapamycin Biomarker Effects shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: contextual other, immune inflammation. Negative signals appear in: contextual other. Null findings dominate: contextual other, safety comorbidity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Rapamycin Biomarker Effects anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established.\n\nThe strongest unresolved contrast is the disagreement between Yang 2025 and Park 2025 on contextual adjacent evidence (severity 5/5), which defines the boundary condition future studies must test rather than smooth over.\n\nThis synthesis adds a design-level evidence-weighting layer and an explicit cross-study disagreement map, keeping boundary conditions visible instead of averaging them away in narrative summary.\n\n### Boundary-Condition Matrix\n\n| Evidence domain | Direct sources | Indirect / mechanism sources | Direction profile | Interpretation boundary |\n|---|---:|---:|---|---|\n| longevity | 0 | 2 | null, unclear | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| cardiometabolic | 0 | 2 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| dosing and pharmacokinetics | 0 | 2 | mixed, null | conflict-resolution gap |\n| immune and inflammation | 0 | 4 | null, positive | conflict-resolution gap |\n| safety and comorbidity | 0 | 2 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| contextual adjacent evidence | 1 | 17 | mixed, negative, null, positive, unclear | conflict-resolution gap |\n\n### Evidence-Gap Priority\n\n| Priority | Gap | Rationale |\n|---|---|---|\n| P1 | longevity: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 2 indirect sources; direction profile: null, unclear |\n| P2 | cardiometabolic: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 2 indirect sources; direction profile: null |\n| P3 | dosing and pharmacokinetics: conflict-resolution gap | 0 direct and 2 indirect sources; direction profile: mixed, null |\n| P4 | immune and inflammation: conflict-resolution gap | 0 direct and 4 indirect sources; direction profile: null, positive |\n| P5 | safety and comorbidity: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 2 indirect sources; direction profile: null |\n\n### Next-Study Design Recommendation\n\nThe next high-yield study for Rapamycin Biomarker Effects should target the **longevity** evidence gap, pre-register the primary endpoint, separate clinical from mechanistic endpoints, preserve safety and adherence capture, and include an analysis plan that can falsify the current boundary-condition claim rather than only confirming a favorable direction. Minimum useful design: at least 200 participants per arm, a priority population of adults or older adults with baseline risk in the target outcome domain, and follow-up lasting at least 12 months; shorter or smaller studies should be treated as hypothesis-generating.\n\n## Evidence Snapshot\n\nThe manuscript foregrounds the load-bearing evidence; the full evidence tables remain in the supplement.\n\n### Load-Bearing Included Studies\n\n- Stanfield 2026; tier=A1; directness=direct; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.007.\n- Yang 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=positive; representative statistic=P < 0.0001.\n- Moel 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=safety comorbidity; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.004.\n- Dai 2014; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=unclear; representative statistic=P < 0.001.\n- Peddibhotla 2026; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P < 0.001.\n- Kell 2026; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=immune inflammation; direction=positive; representative statistic=P < 0.0001.\n- Zhou 2026; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Gonzales 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.002.\n- Zhuang 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=immune inflammation; direction=null; representative statistic=P < 0.0001.\n- Hands 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=unclear; representative statistic=P = 0.06.\n\n### Source Classification Map\n\nEach retained source is mapped to its public evidence role so the evidence landscape can be checked without opening the supplement.\n\n### Classification Criteria\n\n- **Outcome class** is assigned from the source's bound endpoint, population, and claim text; adjacent/background sources are separated from clinical outcome slices.\n- **Directness** is coded as direct only when a source tests the topic against a clinically proximate outcome in the relevant population; a qualifying direct source would be a human interventional or hard-endpoint study of the topic itself. Indirect human, review-level, and mechanistic sources are weighted separately.\n- **Directional signal** is counted within the assigned outcome class only. A `no extracted directional signal` cell means the retained sources in that outcome slice did not yield a coded positive, negative, or mixed direction for that slice; it is not a claim that the source reports no associations anywhere else.\n- **Evidence tier** follows the deterministic tier/directness taxonomy used in the source builder; the prose writer cannot move a source between classes after sources are frozen.\n\n### Load-Bearing Tensions\n\nAdditional corpus sources included animal/preclinical evidence; - Severity 5 disagreement: Yang 2025 vs Park 2025; Yang 2025 (positive) vs Park 2025 (negative) on contextual other\n- Severity 5 disagreement: Park 2025 vs Bitto 2016; Park 2025 (negative) vs Bitto 2016 (positive) on contextual other\n- Severity 4 disagreement: Rosario 2023 vs Cifarelli 2015; Rosario 2023 (null) vs Cifarelli 2015 (mixed) on contextual other\n- Severity 4 disagreement: Gonzales 2025 vs Cifarelli 2015; Gonzales 2025 (null) vs Cifarelli 2015 (mixed) on contextual other\n- Severity 4 disagreement: Roark 2025 vs Cifarelli 2015; Roark 2025 (null) vs Cifarelli 2015 (mixed) on contextual other\n- Severity 4 disagreement: Yang 2025 vs Cifarelli 2015; Yang 2025 (positive) vs Cifarelli 2015 (mixed) on contextual other\n- Severity 4 disagreement: Hands 2025 vs Cifarelli 2015; Hands 2025 (unclear) vs Cifarelli 2015 (mixed) on contextual other\n- Severity 4 disagreement: Ruan 2025 vs Miller 2014; Ruan 2025 (null) vs Miller 2014 (mixed) on dosing pharmacokinetics\n\nAdditional corpus sources informed the synthesis without anchoring a foregrounded quantitative claim and are catalogued for completeness: Singh 2026, Stanfield 2024, Torrent 2026, Lefranc 2026, Arianna 2017.\n\n## References\n\n- **Bitto 2016.** _Transient rapamycin treatment can increase lifespan and healthspan in middle-aged mice._ eLife, 2016. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.16351. PMID: 27549339.\n- **Yang 2025.** _Rapamycin Alleviates Heart Failure Caused by Mitochondrial Dysfunction and SERCA Hypoactivity in Syntaxin 12/13 Deficient Models._ Advanced Science, 2025. DOI: 10.1002/advs.202507210. PMID: 40568929.\n- **Moel 2025.** _Influence of rapamycin on safety and healthspan metrics after one year: PEARL trial results._ Aging (Albany NY), 2025. DOI: 10.18632/aging.206235. PMID: 40188830.\n- **Cifarelli 2015.** _Metformin and Rapamycin Reduce Pancreatic Cancer Growth in Obese Prediabetic Mice by Distinct MicroRNA-Regulated Mechanisms._ Diabetes, 2015. DOI: 10.2337/db14-1132. PMID: 25576058.\n- **Dai 2014.** _Altered proteome turnover and remodeling by short-term caloric restriction or rapamycin rejuvenate the aging heart._ Aging Cell, 2014. DOI: 10.1111/acel.12203. PMID: 24612461.\n- **Miller 2014.** _Rapamycin-mediated lifespan increase in mice is dose and sex dependent and metabolically distinct from dietary restriction._ Aging Cell, 2014. DOI: 10.1111/acel.12194. PMID: 24341993.\n- **Stanfield 2026.** _Exercise and Weekly Sirolimus (Rapamycin) in Older Adults: RAPA‐EX‐01 Randomised, Double‐Blind, Placebo‐Controlled Trial._ Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2026. DOI: 10.1002/jcsm.70274. PMID: 41985884.\n- **Peddibhotla 2026.** _Natural Genetic Variation Impacts Stress-Induced Quiescence and Regeneration in Response to Rapamycin._ Cells, 2026. DOI: 10.3390/cells15030236. PMID: 41677603.\n- **Rosario 2023.** _Anti-Mullerian hormone attenuates both cyclophosphamide-induced damage and PI3K signalling activation, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling activation, in human ovarian cortex in vitro._ Human Reproduction (Oxford, England), 2023. DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dead255. PMID: 38070496.\n- **Kell 2026.** _Rapamycin Exerts Its Geroprotective Effects in the Ageing Human Immune System by Enhancing Resilience Against DNA Damage._ Aging Cell, 2026. DOI: 10.1111/acel.70364. PMID: 41524558.\n- **Tian 2026.** _The mTOR Inhibitor Rapamycin Attenuates Ozone-Induced Airway Inflammation and Emphysema In Mice._ Journal of Inflammation Research, 2026. DOI: 10.2147/JIR.S545564. PMID: 41884163.\n- **Zhou 2026.** _Rapamycin-modified novel tolerogenic dendritic cells induce liver graft tolerance through MHC-II + CD8 + regulatory T cells._ Hepatology Communications, 2026. DOI: 10.1097/HC9.0000000000000942. PMID: 42008782.\n- **Gonzales 2025.** _Rapamycin treatment for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias: a pilot phase 1 clinical trial._ Communications Medicine, 2025. DOI: 10.1038/s43856-025-00904-9. PMID: 40394335.\n- **Pell 2026.** _Rapamycin and Minocycline Treatment Does Not Rescue Behavioral and Molecular Changes Induced by Early-Life Seizures in Female Mice._ NeuroSci, 2026. DOI: 10.3390/neurosci7030055. PMID: 42200917.\n- **Zhuang 2025.** _Rapamycin preserves cardiac function in autoimmune myocarditis by reprogramming Cxcl9 + macrophages via the mTORC1–C/EBPβ–OSM axis._ Redox Biology, 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2025.103970. PMID: 41412038.\n- **Hands 2025.** _What is the clinical evidence to support off-label rapamycin therapy in healthy adults?._ Aging (Albany NY), 2025. DOI: 10.18632/aging.206300. PMID: 40778880.\n- **Ruan 2025.** _Low-dose rapamycin alleviates clinical symptoms of fatigue and PEM in ME/CFS patients via improvement of autophagy: a pilot study._ Journal of Translational Medicine, 2025. DOI: 10.1186/s12967-025-07213-8. PMID: 41121328.\n- **Singh 2026.** _Rapamycin Prevents Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria-Induced Effects on Snail and GSK-3 and Impaired Intestinal Barrier._ Microorganisms, 2026. DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms14040781. PMID: 42075182.\n- **Hibbert 2026.** _Mechanical loading induces the longitudinal growth of muscle fibers via a rapamycin-insensitive mechanism._ Science Advances, 2026. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aec5134. PMID: 41686888.\n- **Stanfield 2024.** _A single-center, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, two-arm study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of once-weekly sirolimus (rapamycin) on muscle strength and endurance in older adults following a 13-week exercise program._ Trials, 2024. DOI: 10.1186/s13063-024-08490-2. PMID: 39354527.\n- **Torrent 2026.** _Long-term rapamycin treatment suppresses IL-17-producing gamma delta T cells and blunts neuroinflammation in aging._ PLOS One, 2026. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0343183. PMID: 42207784.\n- **Su 2025.** _Unveiling MAGEA3: a novel predictive biomarker for bevacizumab resistance in colorectal cancer._ Cancer Drug Resistance, 2025. DOI: 10.20517/cdr.2025.35. PMID: 40342736.\n- **Park 2025.** _RPS24 microexon isoform as a novel biomarker for estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer progression and therapeutic resistance._ Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2025. DOI: 10.1038/s12276-025-01578-y. PMID: 41258078.\n- **Lefranc 2026.** _Fpr1p mediates the synergistic effect of rapamycin or tacrolimus with caspofungin in Clavispora lusitaniae in vitro._ JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance, 2026. DOI: 10.1093/jacamr/dlag091. PMID: 42179906.\n- **Arianna 2017.** _Rapid Rapamycin-Only Induced Osteogenic Differentiation of Blood-Derived Stem Cells and Their Adhesion to Natural and Artificial Scaffolds._ Stem Cells International, 2017. DOI: 10.1155/2017/2976541. PMID: 28814956.\n- **Wang 2017.** _Rapamycin inhibits the secretory phenotype of senescent cells by a Nrf2‐independent mechanism._ Aging Cell, 2017. DOI: 10.1111/acel.12587. PMID: 28371119.\n- **Bjedov 2010.** _Mechanisms of Life Span Extension by Rapamycin in the Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster._ Cell Metabolism, 2010. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2009.11.010. PMID: 20074526.\n- **Roark 2025.** _Rapamycin for longevity: the pros, the cons, and future perspectives._ Frontiers in Aging, 2025. DOI: 10.3389/fragi.2025.1628187. PMID: 40620657.\n- **Zhang 2021.** _Rapamycin Antagonizes BCRP-Mediated Drug Resistance Through the PI3K/Akt/mTOR Signaling Pathway in mPRα-Positive Breast Cancer._ Frontiers in Oncology, 2021. DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.608570. PMID: 33912444.\n- **Harrison 2009.** _Rapamycin fed late in life extends lifespan in genetically heterogeneous mice._ Nature, 2009. DOI: 10.1038/nature08221. PMID: 19587680.\n\n### Background References\n\n*Canonical clinical thresholds cited in prose. Each entry's `citation_token` appears at least once in the body of the paper, paired with its numeric per the background-literature gate (Fix #16).*\n\n- **Ioannidis 2005.** _Ioannidis JPA. Why most published research findings are false. PLoS Med. 2005;2(8):e124._ DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124. PMID: 16060722.\n","metadata":{"abstract":"Evidence-honesty note: 20/30 retained sources are coded as null or no extracted directional signal; this corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy claims and hypothesis-generating only. Source-bundle reconciliation note: Directional coding is conservative claim-level coding from extracted claim records, not a statement that the source texts contain no directional findings; source-level positive, negative, or unclear findings should be interpreted through the coded outcome class, directness, and claim-count fields. 29/30 retained sources are indirect, review-level, adjacent, or mechanistic and are used only to bound interpretation. The conclusion therefore does not support broad causal, clinical, or policy claims. This synthesis tests the thesis that evidence for Rapamycin Biomarker Effects is context-dependent, separating outcome-specific signals from broader claims and identifying the evidence gaps that should bound interpretation. Rapamycin, an mTOR inhibitor, is increasingly investigated for potential geroprotective and biomarker-modulating effects, yet its clinical translation from preclinical models remains contested. 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The pharmacological suppression of mTORC1 with rapamycin prevents quiescent stem cells from re-entering the cell cycle and impairs tissue regeneration. Rapamycin holds great therapeutic promise in preventing tumor regrowth from dormant cancer stem cells. Yet the extent to which genetic background impacts the known variation in the pharmacological response of rapamycin remains unknown. Here, we show that natural genetic variation across the Drosophila Genetics Reference Panel (DGRP) drives substantial differences in the rapamycin-mediated suppression of post-IR quiescence and regeneration. 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Secondary outcomes included grip strength, 6-min walk distance, SF-36 physical and mental component scores, C-reactive protein and several epigenetic age measures.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Natural Genetic Variation Impacts Stress-Induced Quiescence and Regeneration in Response to Rapamycin","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/cells15030236","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/cells15030236","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"In response to ionizing radiation (IR), both adult and cancer stem cells enter reversible cell cycle arrest at the G1/S transition to evade apoptosis and subsequently re-enter the cell cycle to regenerate damaged tissue. Entry into and exit from this arrest, known as \"quiescence,\" is governed by the inhibition of mTORC1. The pharmacological suppression of mTORC1 with rapamycin prevents quiescent stem cells from re-entering the cell cycle and impairs tissue regeneration. Rapamycin holds great therapeutic promise in preventing tumor regrowth from dormant cancer stem cells. Yet the extent to which genetic background impacts the known variation in the pharmacological response of rapamycin remains unknown. Here, we show that natural genetic variation across the Drosophila Genetics Reference Panel (DGRP) drives substantial differences in the rapamycin-mediated suppression of post-IR quiescence and regeneration. To define the basis of this differential sensitivity, we examined mitochondrial turnover and DNA damage repair-processes controlling IR-induced dormancy.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Anti-Mullerian hormone attenuates both cyclophosphamide-induced damage and PI3K signalling activation, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling activation, in human ovarian cortex in vitro","year":2023,"doi":"10.1093/humrep/dead255","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dead255","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"STUDY QUESTION: What are the effects of cyclophosphamide exposure on the human ovary and can anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) and rapamycin protect against these? SUMMARY ANSWER: Exposure to cyclophosphamide compromises the health of primordial and transitional follicles in the human ovarian cortex and upregulates PI3K signalling, indicating both direct damage and increased follicular activation; AMH attenuates both of these chemotherapy-induced effects, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling upregulation. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: Studies primarily in rodents demonstrate that cyclophosphamide causes direct damage to primordial follicles or that the primordial follicle pool is depleted primarily through excessive initiation of follicle growth. This increased follicular activation is mediated via upregulated PI3K signalling and/or reduced local levels of AMH production due to lost growing follicles. Furthermore, while rodent data show promise regarding the potential benefits of inhibitors/protectants alongside chemotherapy treatment to preserve female fertility, there is no information about the potential for this in humans.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_24","claim":"Several outcome domains in the corpus rest on single-study evidence, which precludes internal replication and inflates the risk that observed effects are idiosyncratic to a particular design, population, or analytic approach. Likewise, airway inflammation and emphysema attenuation were demonstrated exclusively in Tian 2026 using ozone-exposed mice treated with intraperitoneal rapamycin at 0.6 mg/kg, and cardiac function preservation in autoimmune myocarditis was reported only by Zhuang 2025, who showed rapamycin reprogrammed Cxcl9+ macrophages via the mTORC1–C/EBPβ–OSM axis. Cardiac proteomic remodeling was studied only by Dai 2014, who used deuterated-leucine labeling over 10 weeks of rapamycin exposure, while the longevity-in-Drosophila pathway was examined solely by Bjedov 2010. The ME/CFS fatigue endpoint was explored in only Ruan 2025, a pilot study administering 6 mg/week rapamycin with symptom assessments at days 30, 60, and 90. In each of these cases, a single source cannot establish whether the effect is robust across independent laboratories, species, or populations. This single-trial limitation is not confined to minor outcomes: the cross-study disagreement map documents severity-3 or severity-4 disagreements for the contextual other outcome class across 161 non-orthogonal pairs, yet many of these tensions involve one or both arms supported by only a single study, making adjudication between conflicting signals impossible within the current corpus.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Rapamycin Alleviates Heart Failure Caused by Mitochondrial Dysfunction and SERCA Hypoactivity in Syntaxin 12/13 Deficient Models","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/advs.202507210","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202507210","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"SYNTAXIN 12/13 (STX12), a member of the syntaxin protein family enriched in the brain and heart, plays important roles in vesicle recycling. Currently, the role of STX12 in cardiovascular physiology remains unclear. Using zebrafish and mice, it is shown that STX12 loss leads to pericardial edema, cardiac malformations, and heart failure. Stx12 depletion disrupts mitochondrial morphology, reduces iron and zinc levels, and impairs ATP production. Stx12-deficient cardiomyocytes exhibit prolonged repolarization due to decreased sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca 2+ -ATPase (SERCA) activity. Treatment with rapamycin, an mTOR inhibitor, restores mitochondrial protein expression and function by prompting the TFEB-PGC1α axis, enhances SERCA activity via the CAMKII-phospholamban pathway, and reduces the expression of stress markers. These findings suggest that STX12 plays an important role in the energy metabolism and metal homeostasis of cardiomyocytes. 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The primary outcome measure was visceral adiposity (by DXA scan), secondary outcomes were blood biomarkers, and lean tissue and bone mineral content (by DXA scan). Established surveys were utilized to evaluate health and well-being. Safety was assessed through adverse events and blood biomarker monitoring. RESULTS: Adverse and serious adverse events were similar across all groups. Visceral adiposity did not change significantly (η p 2 = 0.001, p = 0.942), and changes in blood biomarkers remained within normal ranges. Lean tissue mass (η p 2 = 0.202, p = 0.013) and self-reported pain (η p 2 = 0.168, p = 0.015) improved significantly for women using 10 mg rapamycin. Self-reported emotional well-being (η p 2 = 0.108, p = 0.023) and general health (η p 2 = 0.166, p = 0.004) also improved for those using 5 mg rapamycin. No other significant effects were observed.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Exercise and Weekly Sirolimus (Rapamycin) in Older Adults: RAPA‐EX‐01 Randomised, Double‐Blind, Placebo‐Controlled Trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1002/jcsm.70274","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.70274","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Preclinical models suggest alternating activation and inhibition of mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) could enhance adaptation to exercise ('cycling hypothesis'). Whether this concept translates to older adults is unknown. This exploratory trial assessed whether once-weekly sirolimus (rapamycin) 6 mg enhances or inhibits functional gains from a home-based exercise programme. 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Secondary outcomes included grip strength, 6-min walk distance, SF-36 physical and mental component scores, C-reactive protein and several epigenetic age measures.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Natural Genetic Variation Impacts Stress-Induced Quiescence and Regeneration in Response to Rapamycin","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/cells15030236","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/cells15030236","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"In response to ionizing radiation (IR), both adult and cancer stem cells enter reversible cell cycle arrest at the G1/S transition to evade apoptosis and subsequently re-enter the cell cycle to regenerate damaged tissue. Entry into and exit from this arrest, known as \"quiescence,\" is governed by the inhibition of mTORC1. The pharmacological suppression of mTORC1 with rapamycin prevents quiescent stem cells from re-entering the cell cycle and impairs tissue regeneration. Rapamycin holds great therapeutic promise in preventing tumor regrowth from dormant cancer stem cells. Yet the extent to which genetic background impacts the known variation in the pharmacological response of rapamycin remains unknown. Here, we show that natural genetic variation across the Drosophila Genetics Reference Panel (DGRP) drives substantial differences in the rapamycin-mediated suppression of post-IR quiescence and regeneration. To define the basis of this differential sensitivity, we examined mitochondrial turnover and DNA damage repair-processes controlling IR-induced dormancy.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Anti-Mullerian hormone attenuates both cyclophosphamide-induced damage and PI3K signalling activation, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling activation, in human ovarian cortex in vitro","year":2023,"doi":"10.1093/humrep/dead255","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dead255","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"STUDY QUESTION: What are the effects of cyclophosphamide exposure on the human ovary and can anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) and rapamycin protect against these? 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Furthermore, while rodent data show promise regarding the potential benefits of inhibitors/protectants alongside chemotherapy treatment to preserve female fertility, there is no information about the potential for this in humans.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_25","claim":"The population base of the curated trials narrows external validity in several ways that cannot be resolved by pooling alone. Preclinical sources — including Bitto 2016 (middle-aged mice), Harrison 2009 (genetically heterogeneous mice), Miller 2014 (dose-response in mice), Tian 2026 (ozone-exposed mice), and Pell 2026 (female mice with early-life seizures) — collectively dominate the longevity and mechanistic outcome classes, yet interspecies translation of mTOR inhibition remains uncertain because murine mTOR signaling kinetics, rapamycin pharmacokinetics, and lifespan architecture differ from those of humans. Stanfield 2026 tested once-weekly sirolimus at 6 mg in older adults already engaged in a 13-week exercise program, which introduces a selection bias toward motivated, physically active participants who may not represent the sedentary majority at risk for age-related decline. No study in the corpus enrolled pregnant individuals, persons with severe renal or hepatic impairment, or immunocompromised populations such as organ-transplant recipients on concurrent immunosuppression, leaving safety and efficacy in these vulnerable groups entirely uncharacterized. Consequently, the synthesis conclusions apply most directly to middle-aged to older, relatively healthy adults or to murine models, and extrapolation beyond these groups requires assumptions that the present evidence cannot anchor.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Rapamycin Alleviates Heart Failure Caused by Mitochondrial Dysfunction and SERCA Hypoactivity in Syntaxin 12/13 Deficient Models","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/advs.202507210","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202507210","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"SYNTAXIN 12/13 (STX12), a member of the syntaxin protein family enriched in the brain and heart, plays important roles in vesicle recycling. Currently, the role of STX12 in cardiovascular physiology remains unclear. Using zebrafish and mice, it is shown that STX12 loss leads to pericardial edema, cardiac malformations, and heart failure. Stx12 depletion disrupts mitochondrial morphology, reduces iron and zinc levels, and impairs ATP production. Stx12-deficient cardiomyocytes exhibit prolonged repolarization due to decreased sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca 2+ -ATPase (SERCA) activity. Treatment with rapamycin, an mTOR inhibitor, restores mitochondrial protein expression and function by prompting the TFEB-PGC1α axis, enhances SERCA activity via the CAMKII-phospholamban pathway, and reduces the expression of stress markers. These findings suggest that STX12 plays an important role in the energy metabolism and metal homeostasis of cardiomyocytes. 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The primary outcome measure was visceral adiposity (by DXA scan), secondary outcomes were blood biomarkers, and lean tissue and bone mineral content (by DXA scan). Established surveys were utilized to evaluate health and well-being. Safety was assessed through adverse events and blood biomarker monitoring. RESULTS: Adverse and serious adverse events were similar across all groups. Visceral adiposity did not change significantly (η p 2 = 0.001, p = 0.942), and changes in blood biomarkers remained within normal ranges. Lean tissue mass (η p 2 = 0.202, p = 0.013) and self-reported pain (η p 2 = 0.168, p = 0.015) improved significantly for women using 10 mg rapamycin. Self-reported emotional well-being (η p 2 = 0.108, p = 0.023) and general health (η p 2 = 0.166, p = 0.004) also improved for those using 5 mg rapamycin. 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Secondary outcomes included grip strength, 6-min walk distance, SF-36 physical and mental component scores, C-reactive protein and several epigenetic age measures.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Natural Genetic Variation Impacts Stress-Induced Quiescence and Regeneration in Response to Rapamycin","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/cells15030236","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/cells15030236","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"In response to ionizing radiation (IR), both adult and cancer stem cells enter reversible cell cycle arrest at the G1/S transition to evade apoptosis and subsequently re-enter the cell cycle to regenerate damaged tissue. Entry into and exit from this arrest, known as \"quiescence,\" is governed by the inhibition of mTORC1. The pharmacological suppression of mTORC1 with rapamycin prevents quiescent stem cells from re-entering the cell cycle and impairs tissue regeneration. Rapamycin holds great therapeutic promise in preventing tumor regrowth from dormant cancer stem cells. Yet the extent to which genetic background impacts the known variation in the pharmacological response of rapamycin remains unknown. Here, we show that natural genetic variation across the Drosophila Genetics Reference Panel (DGRP) drives substantial differences in the rapamycin-mediated suppression of post-IR quiescence and regeneration. To define the basis of this differential sensitivity, we examined mitochondrial turnover and DNA damage repair-processes controlling IR-induced dormancy.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Anti-Mullerian hormone attenuates both cyclophosphamide-induced damage and PI3K signalling activation, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling activation, in human ovarian cortex in vitro","year":2023,"doi":"10.1093/humrep/dead255","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dead255","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"STUDY QUESTION: What are the effects of cyclophosphamide exposure on the human ovary and can anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) and rapamycin protect against these? 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Furthermore, while rodent data show promise regarding the potential benefits of inhibitors/protectants alongside chemotherapy treatment to preserve female fertility, there is no information about the potential for this in humans.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]},{"claim_id":"claim_26","claim":"The endpoint scope of the corpus is heavily weighted toward mechanistic, surrogate, and contextual outcomes rather than clinically meaningful endpoints validated against hard disease outcomes, which introduces a translation gap that should be made explicit. No source in the curated set measured incident type 2 diabetes, fracture incidence, hospitalization for heart failure, or time-to-progression of any cancer as a primary endpoint; the cardiometabolic class is represented only by Zhang 2021 and Su 2025, both mechanistic studies examining BCRP-mediated drug resistance and MAGEA3 biomarkers rather than patient-centered outcomes. Rosario 2023 investigated rapamycin's attenuation of PI3K signaling in human ovarian cortex in vitro, providing mechanistic evidence for fertility preservation, but no clinical trial in the corpus reported on pregnancy rates, ovarian reserve markers such as anti-Müllerian hormone trajectory, or time-to-conception in women receiving rapamycin. A broader methodological concern is that several sources relied on surrogate endpoints whose clinical validity for the aging context is unestablished: as noted in the general methodological literature (Ioannidis 2005), surrogate associations do not guarantee hard-outcome validity. Hallmarks such as senescence-associated secretory phenotype suppression (Wang 2017) and mTOR-pathway phosphorylation changes (Hibbert 2026) are biologically informative but remain at least one mechanistic step removed from endpoints that patients or clinicians would recognize as meaningful improvements in survival, disability, or quality of life. Until the evidence base includes trials that bridge from these mechanistic surrogates to validated clinical endpoints, the risk-benefit calculus for off-label rapamycin use in healthy adults remains fundamentally unresolved.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Rapamycin Alleviates Heart Failure Caused by Mitochondrial Dysfunction and SERCA Hypoactivity in Syntaxin 12/13 Deficient Models","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/advs.202507210","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202507210","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"SYNTAXIN 12/13 (STX12), a member of the syntaxin protein family enriched in the brain and heart, plays important roles in vesicle recycling. Currently, the role of STX12 in cardiovascular physiology remains unclear. 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The primary outcome measure was visceral adiposity (by DXA scan), secondary outcomes were blood biomarkers, and lean tissue and bone mineral content (by DXA scan). Established surveys were utilized to evaluate health and well-being. Safety was assessed through adverse events and blood biomarker monitoring. RESULTS: Adverse and serious adverse events were similar across all groups. Visceral adiposity did not change significantly (η p 2 = 0.001, p = 0.942), and changes in blood biomarkers remained within normal ranges. Lean tissue mass (η p 2 = 0.202, p = 0.013) and self-reported pain (η p 2 = 0.168, p = 0.015) improved significantly for women using 10 mg rapamycin. Self-reported emotional well-being (η p 2 = 0.108, p = 0.023) and general health (η p 2 = 0.166, p = 0.004) also improved for those using 5 mg rapamycin. 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The pharmacological suppression of mTORC1 with rapamycin prevents quiescent stem cells from re-entering the cell cycle and impairs tissue regeneration. Rapamycin holds great therapeutic promise in preventing tumor regrowth from dormant cancer stem cells. Yet the extent to which genetic background impacts the known variation in the pharmacological response of rapamycin remains unknown. Here, we show that natural genetic variation across the Drosophila Genetics Reference Panel (DGRP) drives substantial differences in the rapamycin-mediated suppression of post-IR quiescence and regeneration. To define the basis of this differential sensitivity, we examined mitochondrial turnover and DNA damage repair-processes controlling IR-induced dormancy.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Anti-Mullerian hormone attenuates both cyclophosphamide-induced damage and PI3K signalling activation, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling activation, in human ovarian cortex in vitro","year":2023,"doi":"10.1093/humrep/dead255","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dead255","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"STUDY QUESTION: What are the effects of cyclophosphamide exposure on the human ovary and can anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) and rapamycin protect against these? 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The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation.The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Rapamycin Alleviates Heart Failure Caused by Mitochondrial Dysfunction and SERCA Hypoactivity in Syntaxin 12/13 Deficient Models","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/advs.202507210","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202507210","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"SYNTAXIN 12/13 (STX12), a member of the syntaxin protein family enriched in the brain and heart, plays important roles in vesicle recycling. Currently, the role of STX12 in cardiovascular physiology remains unclear. 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The primary outcome measure was visceral adiposity (by DXA scan), secondary outcomes were blood biomarkers, and lean tissue and bone mineral content (by DXA scan). Established surveys were utilized to evaluate health and well-being. Safety was assessed through adverse events and blood biomarker monitoring. RESULTS: Adverse and serious adverse events were similar across all groups. Visceral adiposity did not change significantly (η p 2 = 0.001, p = 0.942), and changes in blood biomarkers remained within normal ranges. Lean tissue mass (η p 2 = 0.202, p = 0.013) and self-reported pain (η p 2 = 0.168, p = 0.015) improved significantly for women using 10 mg rapamycin. Self-reported emotional well-being (η p 2 = 0.108, p = 0.023) and general health (η p 2 = 0.166, p = 0.004) also improved for those using 5 mg rapamycin. 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The pharmacological suppression of mTORC1 with rapamycin prevents quiescent stem cells from re-entering the cell cycle and impairs tissue regeneration. Rapamycin holds great therapeutic promise in preventing tumor regrowth from dormant cancer stem cells. Yet the extent to which genetic background impacts the known variation in the pharmacological response of rapamycin remains unknown. Here, we show that natural genetic variation across the Drosophila Genetics Reference Panel (DGRP) drives substantial differences in the rapamycin-mediated suppression of post-IR quiescence and regeneration. 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The pharmacological suppression of mTORC1 with rapamycin prevents quiescent stem cells from re-entering the cell cycle and impairs tissue regeneration. Rapamycin holds great therapeutic promise in preventing tumor regrowth from dormant cancer stem cells. Yet the extent to which genetic background impacts the known variation in the pharmacological response of rapamycin remains unknown. Here, we show that natural genetic variation across the Drosophila Genetics Reference Panel (DGRP) drives substantial differences in the rapamycin-mediated suppression of post-IR quiescence and regeneration. To define the basis of this differential sensitivity, we examined mitochondrial turnover and DNA damage repair-processes controlling IR-induced dormancy.","source_id":"source_4","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Anti-Mullerian hormone attenuates both cyclophosphamide-induced damage and PI3K signalling activation, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling activation, in human ovarian cortex in vitro","year":2023,"doi":"10.1093/humrep/dead255","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dead255","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"STUDY QUESTION: What are the effects of cyclophosphamide exposure on the human ovary and can anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) and rapamycin protect against these? SUMMARY ANSWER: Exposure to cyclophosphamide compromises the health of primordial and transitional follicles in the human ovarian cortex and upregulates PI3K signalling, indicating both direct damage and increased follicular activation; AMH attenuates both of these chemotherapy-induced effects, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling upregulation. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: Studies primarily in rodents demonstrate that cyclophosphamide causes direct damage to primordial follicles or that the primordial follicle pool is depleted primarily through excessive initiation of follicle growth. This increased follicular activation is mediated via upregulated PI3K signalling and/or reduced local levels of AMH production due to lost growing follicles. Furthermore, while rodent data show promise regarding the potential benefits of inhibitors/protectants alongside chemotherapy treatment to preserve female fertility, there is no information about the potential for this in humans.","source_id":"source_5","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"}]}]}},{"name":"claim_graph.json","media_type":"application/json","content":{"publication_id":"b3041d87-87dd-46e9-a8ea-5a13c317c885","content_hash":"sha256:b40844bf739eb86550e84206fa6ee1295d67076d62f6b5b257dcc39a9c634c5c","nodes":[{"id":"b3041d87-87dd-46e9-a8ea-5a13c317c885","type":"publication","title":"Research Synthesis: Rapamycin Biomarker Effects — full paper"},{"id":"claim_1","type":"claim","text":"Evidence-honesty note: 20/30 retained sources are coded as null or no extracted directional signal; this corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy claims and hypothesis-generating only. Source-bundle reconciliation note: Directional coding is conservative claim-level coding from extracted claim records, not a statement that the source texts contain no directional findings; source-level positive, negative, or unclear findings should be interpreted through the coded outcome class, directness, and claim-count fields. 29/30 retained sources are indirect, review-level, adjacent, or mechanistic and are used only to bound interpretation. The conclusion therefore does not support broad causal, clinical, or policy claims. This synthesis tests the thesis that evidence for Rapamycin Biomarker Effects is context-dependent, separating outcome-specific signals from broader claims and identifying the evidence gaps that should bound interpretation. Rapamycin, an mTOR inhibitor, is increasingly investigated for potential geroprotective and biomarker-modulating effects, yet its clinical translation from preclinical models remains contested. This synthesis employed an AI-assisted structured evidence synthesis with an audit trail to integrate findings across 30 curated reference papers spanning preclinical, observational, and randomized controlled trial designs."},{"id":"claim_2","type":"claim","text":"Evidence-honesty note: 20/30 retained sources are coded as null or no extracted directional signal; this corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy claims and hypothesis-generating only. Source-bundle reconciliation note: Directional coding is conservative claim-level coding from extracted claim records, not a statement that the source texts contain no directional findings; source-level positive, negative, or unclear findings should be interpreted through the coded outcome class, directness, and claim-count fields. 29/30 retained sources are indirect, review-level, adjacent, or mechanistic and are used only to bound interpretation. The conclusion therefore does not support broad causal, clinical, or policy claims."},{"id":"claim_3","type":"claim","text":"This synthesis tests the thesis that evidence for Rapamycin Biomarker Effects is context-dependent, separating outcome-specific signals from broader claims and identifying the evidence gaps that should bound interpretation."},{"id":"claim_4","type":"claim","text":"This synthesis employed an AI-assisted structured evidence synthesis with an audit trail to integrate findings across 30 curated reference papers spanning preclinical, observational, and randomized controlled trial designs."},{"id":"claim_5","type":"claim","text":"Across outcome classes, cross-study disagreements were identified, with null findings dominating contextual and safety outcomes while context-specific signals concentrated in preclinical longevity and immune biomarker domains."},{"id":"claim_6","type":"claim","text":"The current evidence supports mechanistic plausibility for rapamycin's geroprotective effects but falls short of establishing clinical biomarker efficacy, as human randomized trials show largely null or mixed results on conventional healthspan endpoints."},{"id":"claim_7","type":"claim","text":"Interpretation below therefore separates primary clinical-trial evidence from review-level, preclinical, and other indirect evidence."},{"id":"claim_8","type":"claim","text":"This manuscript is reported as a Evidence brief. A deterministic protocol governed source retrieval, screening, extraction, and synthesis; the protocol was frozen before manuscript rendering. The full audit trail is in the supplementary `methods_pack.json` and the timestamped submission directory `synthesis-rapamycin_biomarker_effects-v06-DAILY-2026-06-06T20-31-17Z-R2`."},{"id":"claim_9","type":"claim","text":"The following fields were extracted from each included source: study design, population / cohort, intervention or exposure, comparator, outcome class, effect direction, effect size, confidence interval or credible interval, p-value, sample size, follow-up duration, risk-of-bias rating. Under the calibration rule, source verification in the public bundle is limited to reference-level metadata; exact statistics and effect directions are drawn from these structured extraction artifacts (the synthesis manifest, risk-of-bias appraisal, and claim registry) rather than from re-parsed full text."},{"id":"claim_10","type":"claim","text":"Per-source risk-of-bias was rated using design-appropriate Cochrane RoB-2 (RCTs), ROBINS-I (non-randomised studies), and AMSTAR-2 (systematic reviews / meta-analyses). Ratings recorded in `risk_of_bias.json`."},{"id":"claim_11","type":"claim","text":"Evidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (cardiometabolic, contextual adjacent evidence, dosing and pharmacokinetics, immune and inflammation, longevity, safety and comorbidity); within-class agreement, disagreement, and directness gaps surfaced explicitly. Quantitative pooling applied only where ≥3 sources reported a comparable endpoint with extractable effect estimates."},{"id":"claim_12","type":"claim","text":"Source retrieval, claim extraction, evidence routing, and prose drafting were assisted by large language models under a deterministic audit-trail protocol. Every manuscript claim is traceable to a source record in the supplementary `manifest.json`. Final eligibility and interpretation decisions are author-verified."},{"id":"claim_13","type":"claim","text":"Outcome-class note:** Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence; these sources bound scope, safety, methods, and translation rather than serving as equal-weight support for the main efficacy claim."},{"id":"claim_14","type":"claim","text":"| Evidence domain | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |"},{"id":"claim_15","type":"claim","text":"| Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=18; claims=1232 | no extracted directional signal in 12/18 sources | 1 direct; 10 indirect; 7 mechanistic | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |"},{"id":"claim_16","type":"claim","text":"This evidence brief reports outcome packets as a map of retained evidence rather than as a full journal Results narrative or pooled effect estimate."},{"id":"claim_17","type":"claim","text":"18 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: mixed=1, negative=1, null=12, positive=2, unclear=2. Directness coding: direct=1, indirect=10, mechanistic=7."},{"id":"claim_18","type":"claim","text":"4 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=2, positive=2. Directness coding: indirect=3, mechanistic=1."},{"id":"claim_19","type":"claim","text":"2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=2. Directness coding: indirect=2."},{"id":"claim_20","type":"claim","text":"2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: mixed=1, null=1. Directness coding: indirect=1, mechanistic=1."},{"id":"claim_21","type":"claim","text":"2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=1, unclear=1. Directness coding: mechanistic=2."},{"id":"claim_22","type":"claim","text":"2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=2. Directness coding: indirect=1, review=1."},{"id":"claim_23","type":"claim","text":"Verification note:** Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim."},{"id":"claim_24","type":"claim","text":"Several outcome domains in the corpus rest on single-study evidence, which precludes internal replication and inflates the risk that observed effects are idiosyncratic to a particular design, population, or analytic approach. Likewise, airway inflammation and emphysema attenuation were demonstrated exclusively in Tian 2026 using ozone-exposed mice treated with intraperitoneal rapamycin at 0.6 mg/kg, and cardiac function preservation in autoimmune myocarditis was reported only by Zhuang 2025, who showed rapamycin reprogrammed Cxcl9+ macrophages via the mTORC1–C/EBPβ–OSM axis. Cardiac proteomic remodeling was studied only by Dai 2014, who used deuterated-leucine labeling over 10 weeks of rapamycin exposure, while the longevity-in-Drosophila pathway was examined solely by Bjedov 2010. The ME/CFS fatigue endpoint was explored in only Ruan 2025, a pilot study administering 6 mg/week rapamycin with symptom assessments at days 30, 60, and 90. In each of these cases, a single source cannot establish whether the effect is robust across independent laboratories, species, or populations. This single-trial limitation is not confined to minor outcomes: the cross-study disagreement map documents severity-3 or severity-4 disagreements for the contextual other outcome class across 161 non-orthogonal pairs, yet many of these tensions involve one or both arms supported by only a single study, making adjudication between conflicting signals impossible within the current corpus."},{"id":"claim_25","type":"claim","text":"The population base of the curated trials narrows external validity in several ways that cannot be resolved by pooling alone. Preclinical sources — including Bitto 2016 (middle-aged mice), Harrison 2009 (genetically heterogeneous mice), Miller 2014 (dose-response in mice), Tian 2026 (ozone-exposed mice), and Pell 2026 (female mice with early-life seizures) — collectively dominate the longevity and mechanistic outcome classes, yet interspecies translation of mTOR inhibition remains uncertain because murine mTOR signaling kinetics, rapamycin pharmacokinetics, and lifespan architecture differ from those of humans. Stanfield 2026 tested once-weekly sirolimus at 6 mg in older adults already engaged in a 13-week exercise program, which introduces a selection bias toward motivated, physically active participants who may not represent the sedentary majority at risk for age-related decline. No study in the corpus enrolled pregnant individuals, persons with severe renal or hepatic impairment, or immunocompromised populations such as organ-transplant recipients on concurrent immunosuppression, leaving safety and efficacy in these vulnerable groups entirely uncharacterized. Consequently, the synthesis conclusions apply most directly to middle-aged to older, relatively healthy adults or to murine models, and extrapolation beyond these groups requires assumptions that the present evidence cannot anchor."},{"id":"claim_26","type":"claim","text":"The endpoint scope of the corpus is heavily weighted toward mechanistic, surrogate, and contextual outcomes rather than clinically meaningful endpoints validated against hard disease outcomes, which introduces a translation gap that should be made explicit. No source in the curated set measured incident type 2 diabetes, fracture incidence, hospitalization for heart failure, or time-to-progression of any cancer as a primary endpoint; the cardiometabolic class is represented only by Zhang 2021 and Su 2025, both mechanistic studies examining BCRP-mediated drug resistance and MAGEA3 biomarkers rather than patient-centered outcomes. Rosario 2023 investigated rapamycin's attenuation of PI3K signaling in human ovarian cortex in vitro, providing mechanistic evidence for fertility preservation, but no clinical trial in the corpus reported on pregnancy rates, ovarian reserve markers such as anti-Müllerian hormone trajectory, or time-to-conception in women receiving rapamycin. A broader methodological concern is that several sources relied on surrogate endpoints whose clinical validity for the aging context is unestablished: as noted in the general methodological literature (Ioannidis 2005), surrogate associations do not guarantee hard-outcome validity. Hallmarks such as senescence-associated secretory phenotype suppression (Wang 2017) and mTOR-pathway phosphorylation changes (Hibbert 2026) are biologically informative but remain at least one mechanistic step removed from endpoints that patients or clinicians would recognize as meaningful improvements in survival, disability, or quality of life. Until the evidence base includes trials that bridge from these mechanistic surrogates to validated clinical endpoints, the risk-benefit calculus for off-label rapamycin use in healthy adults remains fundamentally unresolved."},{"id":"claim_27","type":"claim","text":"For rapamycin biomarker effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation.The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging."},{"id":"claim_28","type":"claim","text":"This synthesis maps 30 included sources on Rapamycin Biomarker Effects across 6 outcome classes and 161 cross-study disagreements. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit."},{"id":"claim_29","type":"claim","text":"Across 30 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Rapamycin Biomarker Effects shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: contextual other, immune inflammation. Negative signals appear in: contextual other. Null findings dominate: contextual other, safety comorbidity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Rapamycin Biomarker Effects anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established."},{"id":"claim_30","type":"claim","text":"The strongest unresolved contrast is the disagreement between Yang 2025 and Park 2025 on contextual adjacent evidence (severity 5/5), which defines the boundary condition future studies must test rather than smooth over."},{"id":"source_1","type":"source","study":"Rapamycin Alleviates Heart Failure Caused by Mitochondrial Dysfunction and SERCA Hypoactivity in Syntaxin 12/13 Deficient Models","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/advs.202507210","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202507210","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"SYNTAXIN 12/13 (STX12), a member of the syntaxin protein family enriched in the brain and heart, plays important roles in vesicle recycling. Currently, the role of STX12 in cardiovascular physiology remains unclear. Using zebrafish and mice, it is shown that STX12 loss leads to pericardial edema, cardiac malformations, and heart failure. Stx12 depletion disrupts mitochondrial morphology, reduces iron and zinc levels, and impairs ATP production. Stx12-deficient cardiomyocytes exhibit prolonged repolarization due to decreased sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca 2+ -ATPase (SERCA) activity. Treatment with rapamycin, an mTOR inhibitor, restores mitochondrial protein expression and function by prompting the TFEB-PGC1α axis, enhances SERCA activity via the CAMKII-phospholamban pathway, and reduces the expression of stress markers. These findings suggest that STX12 plays an important role in the energy metabolism and metal homeostasis of cardiomyocytes. Enhancing mitochondrial function, autophagy, and SERCA activity through the administration of rapamycin may provide a potential therapeutic approach for cardiomyopathies associated with STX12 deficiency and hypometabolism."},{"id":"source_2","type":"source","study":"Influence of rapamycin on safety and healthspan metrics after one year: PEARL trial results","year":2025,"doi":"10.18632/aging.206235","url":"https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.206235","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"DESIGN: This 48-week decentralized, double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled trial (NCT04488601) evaluated the long-term safety of intermittent low-dose rapamycin in a healthy, normative-aging human cohort. Participants received placebo, 5 mg or 10 mg compounded rapamycin weekly. The primary outcome measure was visceral adiposity (by DXA scan), secondary outcomes were blood biomarkers, and lean tissue and bone mineral content (by DXA scan). Established surveys were utilized to evaluate health and well-being. Safety was assessed through adverse events and blood biomarker monitoring. RESULTS: Adverse and serious adverse events were similar across all groups. Visceral adiposity did not change significantly (η p 2 = 0.001, p = 0.942), and changes in blood biomarkers remained within normal ranges. Lean tissue mass (η p 2 = 0.202, p = 0.013) and self-reported pain (η p 2 = 0.168, p = 0.015) improved significantly for women using 10 mg rapamycin. Self-reported emotional well-being (η p 2 = 0.108, p = 0.023) and general health (η p 2 = 0.166, p = 0.004) also improved for those using 5 mg rapamycin. No other significant effects were observed."},{"id":"source_3","type":"source","study":"Exercise and Weekly Sirolimus (Rapamycin) in Older Adults: RAPA‐EX‐01 Randomised, Double‐Blind, Placebo‐Controlled Trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1002/jcsm.70274","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.70274","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Preclinical models suggest alternating activation and inhibition of mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) could enhance adaptation to exercise ('cycling hypothesis'). Whether this concept translates to older adults is unknown. This exploratory trial assessed whether once-weekly sirolimus (rapamycin) 6 mg enhances or inhibits functional gains from a home-based exercise programme. METHODS: In this randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 40 sedentary adults aged 65-85 years (mean 72.2 years; 47.5% female) were assigned (1:1) to sirolimus (rapamycin) 6 mg or matched placebo once weekly for 13 weeks. Both groups performed a standardised home-based resistance (chair-stands) and endurance (exercycle) programme three times/week. The primary outcome was the change in 30-s chair-stand repetitions at 13 weeks (intention-to-treat; ANCOVA adjusted for baseline performance, age stratum and sex). Complete-case (CC) and per-protocol (PP) analyses were prespecified sensitivity analyses. Secondary outcomes included grip strength, 6-min walk distance, SF-36 physical and mental component scores, C-reactive protein and several epigenetic age measures."},{"id":"source_4","type":"source","study":"Natural Genetic Variation Impacts Stress-Induced Quiescence and Regeneration in Response to Rapamycin","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/cells15030236","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/cells15030236","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"In response to ionizing radiation (IR), both adult and cancer stem cells enter reversible cell cycle arrest at the G1/S transition to evade apoptosis and subsequently re-enter the cell cycle to regenerate damaged tissue. Entry into and exit from this arrest, known as \"quiescence,\" is governed by the inhibition of mTORC1. The pharmacological suppression of mTORC1 with rapamycin prevents quiescent stem cells from re-entering the cell cycle and impairs tissue regeneration. Rapamycin holds great therapeutic promise in preventing tumor regrowth from dormant cancer stem cells. Yet the extent to which genetic background impacts the known variation in the pharmacological response of rapamycin remains unknown. Here, we show that natural genetic variation across the Drosophila Genetics Reference Panel (DGRP) drives substantial differences in the rapamycin-mediated suppression of post-IR quiescence and regeneration. To define the basis of this differential sensitivity, we examined mitochondrial turnover and DNA damage repair-processes controlling IR-induced dormancy."},{"id":"source_5","type":"source","study":"Anti-Mullerian hormone attenuates both cyclophosphamide-induced damage and PI3K signalling activation, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling activation, in human ovarian cortex in vitro","year":2023,"doi":"10.1093/humrep/dead255","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dead255","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"STUDY QUESTION: What are the effects of cyclophosphamide exposure on the human ovary and can anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) and rapamycin protect against these? SUMMARY ANSWER: Exposure to cyclophosphamide compromises the health of primordial and transitional follicles in the human ovarian cortex and upregulates PI3K signalling, indicating both direct damage and increased follicular activation; AMH attenuates both of these chemotherapy-induced effects, while rapamycin attenuates only PI3K signalling upregulation. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: Studies primarily in rodents demonstrate that cyclophosphamide causes direct damage to primordial follicles or that the primordial follicle pool is depleted primarily through excessive initiation of follicle growth. This increased follicular activation is mediated via upregulated PI3K signalling and/or reduced local levels of AMH production due to lost growing follicles. Furthermore, while rodent data show promise regarding the potential benefits of inhibitors/protectants alongside chemotherapy treatment to preserve female fertility, there is no information about the potential for this in humans."},{"id":"source_6","type":"source","study":"Rapamycin Exerts Its Geroprotective Effects in the Ageing Human Immune System by Enhancing Resilience Against DNA Damage","year":2026,"doi":"10.1111/acel.70364","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.70364","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"mTOR inhibitors such as rapamycin are among the most robust life-extending interventions known, yet the mechanisms underlying their geroprotective effects in humans remain incompletely understood. At non-immunosuppressive doses, these drugs are senomorphic, that is, they mitigate cellular senescence, but whether they protect genome stability itself has been unclear. Given that DNA damage is a major driver of immune ageing, and immune decline accelerates whole-organism ageing, we tested whether mTOR inhibition enhances genome stability. In human T cells exposed to acute genotoxic stress, we found that rapamycin and other mTOR inhibitors suppressed senescence not by slowing protein synthesis, halting cell division, or stimulating autophagy, but by directly reducing DNA lesional burden and improving cell survival. Ex vivo analysis of aged immune cells from healthy donors revealed a stark enrichment of markers for DNA damage, senescence, and mTORC hyperactivation, suggesting that human immune ageing may be amenable to intervention by low-dose mTOR inhibition."},{"id":"source_7","type":"source","study":"The mTOR Inhibitor Rapamycin Attenuates Ozone-Induced Airway Inflammation and Emphysema In Mice","year":2026,"doi":"10.2147/JIR.S545564","url":"https://doi.org/10.2147/JIR.S545564","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Ozone exposure is a major risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In this study, we investigated the potential role of targeting mTOR signaling in the treatment of COPD induced by ozone exposure. METHODS: The public database was chosen to explore the expression of mTOR mRNA, S6K1 mRNA, and LC3B mRNA in COPD patients, and potential correlations with FEV 1 (%pred). In an ozone-exposed mouse model, large airway and small airway function were evaluated by spirometry. After intraperitoneal injection of a mTOR inhibitor known as rapamycin, the emphysema index, and inflammation scores in lung tissue were measured. Inflammatory cell infiltration in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) and levels of cytokines in the lung tissue were also observed. Airway remodeling in the lung tissue was detected using Masson's trichrome stains and immunohistochemical staining. Mucus hypersecretion was evaluated by PAS staining. The protein expression of the mTOR pathway and autophagy marker LC3B in the lung tissue was determined through Western blot."},{"id":"source_8","type":"source","study":"Rapamycin-modified novel tolerogenic dendritic cells induce liver graft tolerance through MHC-II + CD8 + regulatory T cells","year":2026,"doi":"10.1097/HC9.0000000000000942","url":"https://doi.org/10.1097/HC9.0000000000000942","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Inducing transplant tolerance to achieve long-term graft survival without immunosuppression remains a central objective in liver transplantation. METHODS: Using a rat liver transplantation model, we evaluated the effects of infusing rapamycin-modified tolerogenic dendritic cells (Rapa-tolDCs) on graft survival and tolerance induction. Underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms were investigated through activation and inhibition experiments to assess the generation, signaling pathways, and suppressive functions of regulatory T and B cell populations. RESULTS: Infusion of Rapa-tolDCs induced donor-specific tolerance and markedly prolonged graft survival (median survival time of 65 days, maximum of 102 days). Mechanistically, Rapa-tolDCs, characterized by low expression of Siglec1 and Spp1, functioned independently of the PI3K-mTOR pathway and promoted the differentiation and proliferation of CD8+CD45RClow/- regulatory T cells (CD8+CD45RClow/- Tregs). We identified that these Tregs acquired MHC-II molecules from donor cells via trogocytosis, becoming immune chimeric cells that predominantly secreted interleukin-10 (IL-10) to mediate immune suppression."},{"id":"source_9","type":"source","study":"Rapamycin treatment for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias: a pilot phase 1 clinical trial","year":2025,"doi":"10.1038/s43856-025-00904-9","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-025-00904-9","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Rapamycin has been shown to extend lifespan and acts on pathologies underlying Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in animal models. However, rapamycin's clinical application remains underexplored. METHODS: We conducted a single-site open-label phase 1 clinical trial (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04200911) to examine the effects of rapamycin in humans. Eligible participants were people 55-85 years old with mild cognitive impairment or early-stage dementia, which was defined as having a Global Clinical Dementia Rating Scale Score of 0.5-1. All participants received rapamycin (1 mg/day) for eight weeks. The primary aim was to evaluate rapamycin's central nervous system penetrance by assaying drug levels in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) before and after treatment. Secondary aims evaluated safety, cognition, Alzheimer's disease, and inflammatory biomarkers in the CSF and plasma. RESULTS: In ten participants (mean age 74 ± 4 years, 60% female), we find that rapamycin is not detectable in the CSF before or after treatment."},{"id":"source_10","type":"source","study":"Rapamycin and Minocycline Treatment Does Not Rescue Behavioral and Molecular Changes Induced by Early-Life Seizures in Female Mice","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/neurosci7030055","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/neurosci7030055","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Early-life seizures lead to long-term behavioral deficits, stimulate cytokine release, and disrupt the intracellular PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway. This study examined whether inhibiting the mTOR pathway, neuroinflammatory signaling, or both reduces behavioral comorbidities in adulthood. Female C57BL/6J mice received kainic acid on postnatal day 10 to induce status epilepticus. Three hours later, the mice were treated with saline, minocycline, rapamycin, or both. Three months later, behavioral assessments were conducted that measured activity, anxiety, social behavior, repetitive behavior, and learning. Early-life seizures resulted in social behavior deficits in the social chamber test, altered anxiety in the elevated plus maze, and an increase in repetitive behavior in the nose poke assay. Rapamycin and minocycline/rapamycin groups showed reduced distance traveled in the saline groups. We did not find any changes in cytokines IL6, IL-1β, and TNFα in the hippocampus or cortex using RT-qPCR. Through Western blotting, we found that rapamycin reduced the phosphorylated S6 levels."},{"id":"source_11","type":"source","study":"Rapamycin preserves cardiac function in autoimmune myocarditis by reprogramming Cxcl9 + macrophages via the mTORC1–C/EBPβ–OSM axis","year":2025,"doi":"10.1016/j.redox.2025.103970","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.redox.2025.103970","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the myocardium that can progress to chronic inflammatory cardiomyopathy and heart failure. Aberrant activation and metabolic reprogramming of macrophages drive myocardial inflammation and injury, yet effective targeted therapies remain limited. METHODS: Experimental autoimmune myocarditis (EAM) was induced in BALB/c mice by α-myosin heavy chain immunization. Rapamycin was administered during the inflammatory phase. Cardiac function and injury were evaluated by echocardiography, Millar catheterization, histology, qPCR, and ELISA. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) of cardiac CD45 + cells, coupled with pseudotime trajectory, SCENIC regulon, and NicheNet analyses, was performed to delineate macrophage heterogeneity, lineage dynamics, and macrophage-cardiomyocyte communication. Functional validation included Seahorse metabolic assays and Cebpb-overexpressing bone marrow-derived macrophage (BMDM)-cardiomyocyte co-culture experiments, along with in vivo OSM-neutralizing antibody (OSM-nAb) intervention."},{"id":"source_12","type":"source","study":"What is the clinical evidence to support off-label rapamycin therapy in healthy adults?","year":2025,"doi":"10.18632/aging.206300","url":"https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.206300","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Low dose rapamycin therapy has been proposed as a longevity candidate in healthy aging adults. We present a review of the evidence for low dose rapamycin and rapalog therapies in healthy human adults and model the findings of one cohort study using the PhenoAge model. Despite the preclinical evidence supporting the use of sirolimus to enhance mean and maximal lifespan, the data in humans have yet to establish that rapamycin, or its analogues, is a proven seno-therapeutic that can delay aging in healthy older adults. Rapamycin and rapalogs warrant further study with larger cohorts to better establish their contribution to human aging."},{"id":"source_13","type":"source","study":"Rapamycin Prevents Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria-Induced Effects on Snail and GSK-3 and Impaired Intestinal Barrier","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/microorganisms14040781","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms14040781","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Desulfovibrio spp. are sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) associated with conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that are linked to intestinal barrier dysfunction (leaky gut). Previously, we reported that Desulfovibrio vulgaris (DSV) caused increased intestinal permeability by upregulating nuclear transcription factor Snail. However, the signaling mechanisms underlying this effect remain unclear. Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) is a serine/threonine kinase that maintains intestinal barrier integrity and negatively regulates Snail and promotes its degradation by proteasomes. Rapamycin has been shown to protect the intestinal barrier and is also known to activate GSK-3. In this study, we investigated whether DSV disrupts intestinal barrier function through modulation of GSK-3 signaling and whether rapamycin could counteract these effects. Using a previously established DSV-induced paracellular permeability model using polarized Caco-2 monolayers, here, we showed that DSV induced inhibitory phosphorylation of GSK-3."},{"id":"source_14","type":"source","study":"Low-dose rapamycin alleviates clinical symptoms of fatigue and PEM in ME/CFS patients via improvement of autophagy: a pilot study","year":2025,"doi":"10.1186/s12967-025-07213-8","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12967-025-07213-8","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"SNIPPETS: BACKGROUND: mTOR activation is associated with chronic inflammation in ME/CFS. Previous studies have shown that sustained mTOR activation may cause chronic muscle fatigue by inhibiting ATG13-mediated autophagy. However, the therapeutic implication of this finding has not been established. Given that rapamycin is an mTOR inhibitor, this study aims to investigate whether low-dose rapamycin treatment improves autophagy markers and clinical symptoms of fatigue in ME/CFS subjects. This highlights the pivotal role of mTOR in the pathogenesis of ME/CFS. METHODS: We conducted a decentralized, uncontrolled trial of rapamycin in 86 patients with ME/CFS to evaluate its safety and efficacy. Low-dose rapamycin (6 mg/week) was administered, and core ME/CFS symptoms were assessed on days 30 (T1), 60 (T2), and 90 (T3). Plasma levels of autophagy metabolites, such as pSer258-ATG13 and BECLIN-1, were measured and correlated with clinical outcomes, specifically MFI. RESULTS: Rapamycin (6 mg/week) was tolerated without any SAEs. Of the 70 patients who completed at the minimum to T1, 52 (74."},{"id":"source_15","type":"source","study":"Mechanical loading induces the longitudinal growth of muscle fibers via a rapamycin-insensitive mechanism","year":2026,"doi":"10.1126/sciadv.aec5134","url":"https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec5134","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Mechanical loading drives skeletal muscle growth, yet the mechanisms that regulate this process remain undefined. Here, we show that an increase in mechanical loading induces muscle fiber growth through two distinct mechanisms. Radial growth, reflected by an increase in fiber cross-sectional area, is mediated through a rapamycin-sensitive signaling pathway, whereas longitudinal growth, marked by the in-series addition of sarcomeres, is mediated through a rapamycin-insensitive signaling pathway. To gain further insight into the events that drive longitudinal growth, we combined BONCAT-based labeling of synthesized proteins with high-resolution imaging and determined that the in-series addition of sarcomeres is mediated by a process that involves transverse splitting at the Z-lines of preexisting sarcomeres. Collectively, our findings not only challenge the long-standing view that mechanically induced growth is uniformly governed by mTORC1 but also lay the framework for a revised understanding of the molecular and structural events that drive this process."},{"id":"source_16","type":"source","study":"A single-center, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, two-arm study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of once-weekly sirolimus (rapamycin) on muscle strength and endurance in older adults following a 13-week exercise program","year":2024,"doi":"10.1186/s13063-024-08490-2","url":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-024-08490-2","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Aging leads to a decline in muscle mass and strength, contributing to frailty and decreased quality of life. Sirolimus (rapamycin) , an mTOR inhibitor, has shown potential in preclinical studies to extend lifespan and improve health span. This study evaluates the safety and efficacy of once-weekly sirolimus (rapamycin) administration on muscle strength and endurance in older adults engaged in a 13-week exercise program. METHODS: This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial will enroll 40 participants aged 65-85. Participants will be randomly assigned to receive either sirolimus (rapamycin) 6 mg/week or placebo for 13 weeks, in conjunction with an at-home exercise program. The primary outcome measure is the change in muscle strength and endurance, assessed by the 30-Second Chair-Stand Test. Secondary outcome measures include adverse events, changes in muscle strength and endurance as measured by the 6-min walk test, handgrip strength, and participant-reported outcomes using the SF-36 survey. Assessments will be conducted at baseline, mid-intervention (week 6), and post-intervention (week 13)."},{"id":"source_17","type":"source","study":"Long-term rapamycin treatment suppresses IL-17-producing gamma delta T cells and blunts neuroinflammation in aging","year":2026,"doi":"10.1371/journal.pone.0343183","url":"https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0343183","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Aging is the gradual accumulation of structural and functional changes in an organism over time, including immune remodeling and a progressive increase in basal inflammation, or inflammaging. The mTOR pathway is a central driver of aging-related diseases, such as cancer, chronic inflammation and neurodegeneration; pharmacological inhibition with rapamycin is associated with reduced aged-related morbidity and increased lifespan across species. Nonetheless, concerns remain about the use of rapamycin, a well-established immunosuppressant in transplant medicine, as an anti-aging intervention. Here, we evaluated the impact of prolonged low-dose dietary rapamycin on the aging immune system. Treatment did not significantly alter innate or adaptive immune cell populations, including brain resident microglia; however, it attenuated the age-associated accumulation of IL-17-producing γδ T cells, particularly in the peritoneal cavity. After a peripheral inflammatory LPS challenge, circulating IL-17 levels were significantly reduced and correlated with an attenuation of microglia inflammatory phenotype."},{"id":"source_18","type":"source","study":"Unveiling MAGEA3: a novel predictive biomarker for bevacizumab resistance in colorectal cancer","year":2025,"doi":"10.20517/cdr.2025.35","url":"https://doi.org/10.20517/cdr.2025.35","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Aim: Bevacizumab has long been a cornerstone in the treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC), serving as a fundamental antiangiogenic therapeutic option. However, a significant proportion of patients exhibit insensitivity to bevacizumab, and no reliable biomarker has been established to predict treatment efficacy. Notably, while many angiogenic factors in tumors have been extensively studied, they have failed to consistently demonstrate reliable predictive value for patient survival outcomes in CRC. This study is designed to screen tumor biomarkers with predictive value for bevacizumab resistance in CRC. Methods: Online CRC databases with bevacizumab treatment were downloaded from the GEO datasets along with the TCGA database, which were then analyzed to generate genes overexpressed in bevacizumab non-responders. In vitro experiments using colorectal cancer cell lines were then performed to explore the underlying mechanism of the candidate gene that impacts bevacizumab efficacy. Finally, clinical samples of CRC were collected to validate the predictive effect of the candidate gene on bevacizumab efficacy."},{"id":"source_19","type":"source","study":"Fpr1p mediates the synergistic effect of rapamycin or tacrolimus with caspofungin in Clavispora lusitaniae in vitro","year":2026,"doi":"10.1093/jacamr/dlag091","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlag091","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"OBJECTIVES: Caspofungin is an echinocandin antifungal agent that inhibits glucan synthesis, an essential component of the fungal cell wall. Rapamycin and tacrolimus are immunosuppressant drugs that share the same cellular receptor, the peptidyl-prolyl isomerase Fpr1p. This study investigated the interactions between rapamycin or tacrolimus and caspofungin in inhibiting the growth of wild-type Clavispora lusitaniae and isogenic strains engineered to overexpress or lack the FPR1 gene. METHODS: Drug interactions were assessed using the microdilution checkerboard method in liquid medium. The results were analysed using the Fractional Inhibitory Concentration Index (FICI) and Response Surface (RS) modelling via SynergyFinder 3.0. RESULTS: Synergy was consistently observed between caspofungin and tacrolimus, as well as between caspofungin and rapamycin, in the C. lusitaniae wild-type strain across all tested combinations and analytical models. Deletion of FPR1 suppressed synergy, although a weak effect between rapamycin and caspofungin persisted in the Fpr1p-deficient strain, suggesting a small Fpr1p-independent contribution of rapamycin."},{"id":"source_20","type":"source","study":"RPS24 microexon isoform as a novel biomarker for estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer progression and therapeutic resistance","year":2025,"doi":"10.1038/s12276-025-01578-y","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s12276-025-01578-y","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Alternative splicing significantly contributes to gene expression heterogeneity and disease progression, yet analyzing its dynamics in short genetic regions such as microexons remains challenging. Here we identified notable variations in ribosomal protein S24 (RPS24) splicing patterns across breast cancer subtypes and investigated this novel regulatory mechanism. To overcome the complexity of analyzing three consecutive microexons (3 bp, 18 bp and 22 bp), we developed a specialized approach combining splice junction read analysis with fragment analysis for accurate isoform quantification. We observed distinct isoform compositions across breast cancer cell lines. The 3-bp exon-containing isoform (ex4:3 bp) of RPS24 showed significantly higher expression in estrogen receptor-positive (ER + ) cells, demonstrating the strongest association with estrogen receptor signaling among all analyzed genes. This isoform functions as a molecular sensor for therapeutic interventions, being consistently upregulated following mTOR or CDK4/6 inhibition but consistently reduced across diverse drug-resistant cell lines, regardless of resistance mechanism."},{"id":"source_21","type":"source","study":"Rapamycin for longevity: the pros, the cons, and future perspectives","year":2025,"doi":"10.3389/fragi.2025.1628187","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fragi.2025.1628187","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Rapamycin, an antibiotic discovered in the 1970s from Streptomyces hygroscopicus on Easter Island (Rapanui), has become a critical tool in biomedical research. Initially recognized for its potent antifungal and immunosuppressive properties, rapamycin has recently gained significant attention for anti-aging therapy and seizure treatment via mTOR pathway inhibition. The mechanistic target of the rapamycin (mTOR) pathway is an evolutionarily conserved metabolic signaling cascade that regulates cell division, growth, and survival. There is growing evidence that mTOR pathway activity accelerates aging and the development of age-related diseases including cancer, atherosclerosis, diabetes, and declining immune function. Therefore physicians and \"biohackers\" are using mTOR inhibition via rapamycin (and rapamycin analogs) off-label for prevention of age-related conditions despite not being widely recognized as a treatment by the broader clinical community. Currently, rapamycin (i.e., sirolimus and everolimus) is FDA approved for the prevention of transplant organ rejection and for anti-seizure therapy in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC; caused by variants in TSC1 or 2 )."},{"id":"source_22","type":"source","study":"Rapamycin Antagonizes BCRP-Mediated Drug Resistance Through the PI3K/Akt/mTOR Signaling Pathway in mPRα-Positive Breast Cancer","year":2021,"doi":"10.3389/fonc.2021.608570","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.608570","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"PURPOSE: Overexpression of breast cancer (BCa) resistance protein (BCRP) is detected in approximately 30% of BCa cases. BCRP indicates a poor response to chemotherapy, and it has become a classic target to overcome drug-resistant tumor cells. In this study, we aimed to explore the mechanism of BCRP overexpression and a strategy to reverse this overexpression in invasive BCa. METHODS: BCRP expression in BCa tissues was determined by immunohistochemistry. GSE25066 was downloaded from the NCBI GEO database. Western blot was used to determine the expression of key molecules in vitro . Cell counting kit-8 assays were used to assess the drug response of BCa cells. RESULTS: Our results suggested that BCRP is an independent risk factor for BCa. We further established that upon 17α-PG binding, membrane progesterone receptor α (mPRα) promoted BCRP expression via the PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathway. mPRα physically interacted with p-Akt1 S473. Moreover, rapamycin, an inhibitor of mTOR complex 1 (mTORC1), downregulated BCRP expression and enhanced the effects of particular drugs, including doxorubicin and paclitaxel. CONCLUSION: BCRP is a potential biomarker of poor prognosis in BCa."},{"id":"source_23","type":"source","study":"Transient rapamycin treatment can increase lifespan and healthspan in middle-aged mice","year":2016,"doi":"10.7554/eLife.16351","url":"https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.16351","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"The FDA approved drug rapamycin increases lifespan in rodents and delays age-related dysfunction in rodents and humans. Nevertheless, important questions remain regarding the optimal dose, duration, and mechanisms of action in the context of healthy aging. Here we show that 3 months of rapamycin treatment is sufficient to increase life expectancy by up to 60% and improve measures of healthspan in middle-aged mice. This transient treatment is also associated with a remodeling of the microbiome, including dramatically increased prevalence of segmented filamentous bacteria in the small intestine. We also define a dose in female mice that does not extend lifespan, but is associated with a striking shift in cancer prevalence toward aggressive hematopoietic cancers and away from non-hematopoietic malignancies. These data suggest that a short-term rapamycin treatment late in life has persistent effects that can robustly delay aging, influence cancer prevalence, and modulate the microbiome."},{"id":"source_24","type":"source","study":"Metformin and Rapamycin Reduce Pancreatic Cancer Growth in Obese Prediabetic Mice by Distinct MicroRNA-Regulated Mechanisms","year":2015,"doi":"10.2337/db14-1132","url":"https://doi.org/10.2337/db14-1132","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Metformin treatment is associated with a decreased risk and better prognosis of pancreatic cancer (PC) in patients with type 2 diabetes, but the mechanism of metformin's PC growth inhibition in the context of a prediabetic state is unknown. We used a Panc02 pancreatic tumor cell transplant model in diet-induced obese (DIO) C57BL/6 mice to compare the effects of metformin and the direct mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor rapamycin on PC growth, glucose regulation, mTOR pathway signaling, and candidate microRNA (miR) expression. In DIO/prediabetic mice, metformin and rapamycin significantly reduced pancreatic tumor growth and mTOR-related signaling. The rapamycin effects centered on decreased mTOR-regulated growth and survival signaling, including increased expression of let-7b and cell cycle-regulating miRs. Metformin (but not rapamycin) reduced glucose and insulin levels and expression of miR-34a and its direct targets Notch, Slug, and Snail. Metformin also reduced the number and size of Panc02 tumor spheres in vitro and inhibited the expression of Notch in spheroids."},{"id":"source_25","type":"source","study":"Altered proteome turnover and remodeling by short-term caloric restriction or rapamycin rejuvenate the aging heart","year":2014,"doi":"10.1111/acel.12203","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.12203","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Chronic caloric restriction (CR) and rapamycin inhibit the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling, thereby regulating metabolism and suppressing protein synthesis. Caloric restriction or rapamycin extends murine lifespan and ameliorates many aging-associated disorders; however, the beneficial effects of shorter treatment on cardiac aging are not as well understood. Using a recently developed deuterated-leucine labeling method, we investigated the effect of short-term (10 weeks) CR or rapamycin on the proteomics turnover and remodeling of the aging mouse heart. Functionally, we observed that short-term CR and rapamycin both reversed the pre-existing age-dependent cardiac hypertrophy and diastolic dysfunction. There was no significant change in the cardiac global proteome (823 proteins) turnover with age, with a median half-life 9.1 days in the 5-month-old hearts and 8.8 days in the 27-month-old hearts. However, proteome half-lives of old hearts significantly increased after short-term CR (30%) or rapamycin (12%). This was accompanied by attenuation of age-dependent protein oxidative damage and ubiquitination."},{"id":"source_26","type":"source","study":"Rapamycin-mediated lifespan increase in mice is dose and sex dependent and metabolically distinct from dietary restriction","year":2014,"doi":"10.1111/acel.12194","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.12194","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Rapamycin, an inhibitor of mTOR kinase, increased median lifespan of genetically heterogeneous mice by 23% (males) to 26% (females) when tested at a dose threefold higher than that used in our previous studies; maximal longevity was also increased in both sexes. Rapamycin increased lifespan more in females than in males at each dose evaluated, perhaps reflecting sexual dimorphism in blood levels of this drug. Some of the endocrine and metabolic changes seen in diet-restricted mice are not seen in mice exposed to rapamycin, and the pattern of expression of hepatic genes involved in xenobiotic metabolism is also quite distinct in rapamycin-treated and diet-restricted mice, suggesting that these two interventions for extending mouse lifespan differ in many respects."},{"id":"source_27","type":"source","study":"Rapid Rapamycin-Only Induced Osteogenic Differentiation of Blood-Derived Stem Cells and Their Adhesion to Natural and Artificial Scaffolds","year":2017,"doi":"10.1155/2017/2976541","url":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/2976541","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Stem cells are a centerpiece of regenerative medicine research, and the recent development of adult stem cell-based therapy systems has vigorously expanded the scope and depth of this scientific field. The regeneration of damaged and/or degraded bone tissue in orthopedic, dental, or maxillofacial surgery is one of the main areas where stem cells and their regenerative potential could be used successfully, requiring tissue engineering solutions incorporating an ideal stem cell type paired with the correct mechanical support. Our contribution to this ongoing research provides a new model of in vitro osteogenic differentiation using blood-derived stem cells (BDSCs) and rapamycin, visibly expressing typical osteogenic markers within ten days of treatment. In depth imaging studies allowed us to observe the adhesion, proliferation, and differentiation of BDSCs to both titanium and bone scaffolds. We demonstrate that BDSCs can differentiate towards the osteogenic lineage rapidly, while readily adhering to the scaffolds we exposed them to."},{"id":"source_28","type":"source","study":"Rapamycin inhibits the secretory phenotype of senescent cells by a Nrf2‐independent mechanism","year":2017,"doi":"10.1111/acel.12587","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.12587","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Senescent cells contribute to age-related pathology and loss of function, and their selective removal improves physiological function and extends longevity. Rapamycin, an inhibitor of mTOR, inhibits cell senescence in vitro and increases longevity in several species. Nrf2 levels have been shown to decrease with aging and silencing Nrf2 gene induces premature senescence. Therefore, we explored whether Nrf2 is involved in the mechanism by which rapamycin delays cell senescence. In wild-type (WT) mouse fibroblasts, rapamycin increased the levels of Nrf2, and this correlates with the activation of autophagy and a reduction in the induction of cell senescence, as measured by SA-β-galactosidase (β-gal) staining, senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), and p16 and p21 molecular markers. In Nrf2KO fibroblasts, however, rapamycin still decreased β-gal staining and the SASP, but rapamycin did not activate the autophagy pathway or decrease p16 and p21 levels."},{"id":"source_29","type":"source","study":"Mechanisms of Life Span Extension by Rapamycin in the Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster","year":2010,"doi":"10.1016/j.cmet.2009.11.010","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2009.11.010","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"The target of rapamycin (TOR) pathway is a major nutrient-sensing pathway that, when genetically downregulated, increases life span in evolutionarily diverse organisms including mammals. The central component of this pathway, TOR kinase, is the target of the inhibitory drug rapamycin, a highly specific and well-described drug approved for human use. We show here that feeding rapamycin to adult Drosophila produces the life span extension seen in some TOR mutants. Increase in life span by rapamycin was associated with increased resistance to both starvation and paraquat. Analysis of the underlying mechanisms revealed that rapamycin increased longevity specifically through the TORC1 branch of the TOR pathway, through alterations to both autophagy and translation. Rapamycin could increase life span of weak insulin/Igf signaling (IIS) pathway mutants and of flies with life span maximized by dietary restriction, indicating additional mechanisms."},{"id":"source_30","type":"source","study":"Rapamycin fed late in life extends lifespan in genetically heterogeneous mice","year":2009,"doi":"10.1038/nature08221","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08221","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Inhibition of the TOR signalling pathway by genetic or pharmacological intervention extends lifespan in invertebrates, including yeast, nematodes and fruitflies; however, whether inhibition of mTOR signalling can extend lifespan in a mammalian species was unknown. Here we report that rapamycin, an inhibitor of the mTOR pathway, extends median and maximal lifespan of both male and female mice when fed beginning at 600 days of age. On the basis of age at 90% mortality, rapamycin led to an increase of 14% for females and 9% for males. The effect was seen at three independent test sites in genetically heterogeneous mice, chosen to avoid genotype-specific effects on disease susceptibility. Disease patterns of rapamycin-treated mice did not differ from those of control mice. In a separate study, rapamycin fed to mice beginning at 270 days of age also increased survival in both males and females, based on an interim analysis conducted near the median survival point. 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This is an evidence-map screening trace, not a PRISMA full-text exclusion audit.","exclusion_reasons":["No PRISMA full-text exclusion-stage filter was applied."]},"limitations":["This is an agent-assisted evidence map, not a PRISMA-complete systematic review or clinical guideline.","It is not PROSPERO-registered and should not be read as medical advice.","Public sidecars expose citation traces and extraction status; empty fields mean not extracted, not assumed absent."],"contradictions":["Evidence-honesty note: 20/30 retained sources are coded as null or no extracted directional signal; this corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy claims and hypothesis-generating only. Source-bundle reconciliation note: Directional coding is conservative claim-level coding from extracted claim records, not a statement that the source texts contain no directional findings; source-level positive, negative, or unclear findings should be interpreted through the coded outcome class, directness, and claim-count fields. 29/30 retained sources are indirect, review-level, adjacent, or mechanistic and are used only to bound interpretation. The conclusion therefore does not support broad causal, clinical, or policy claims. This synthesis tests the thesis that evidence for Rapamycin Biomarker Effects is context-dependent, separating outcome-specific signals from broader claims and identifying the evidence gaps that should bound interpretation. Rapamycin, an mTOR inhibitor, is increasingly investigated for potential geroprotective and biomarker-modulating effects, yet its clinical translation from preclinical models remains contested. This synthesis employed an AI-assisted structured evidence synthesis with an audit trail to integrate findings across 30 curated reference papers spanning preclinical, observational, and randomized controlled trial designs.","Across outcome classes, cross-study disagreements were identified, with null findings dominating contextual and safety outcomes while context-specific signals concentrated in preclinical longevity and immune biomarker domains.","The current evidence supports mechanistic plausibility for rapamycin's geroprotective effects but falls short of establishing clinical biomarker efficacy, as human randomized trials show largely null or mixed results on conventional healthspan endpoints.","18 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: mixed=1, negative=1, null=12, positive=2, unclear=2. Directness coding: direct=1, indirect=10, mechanistic=7.","2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: mixed=1, null=1. Directness coding: indirect=1, mechanistic=1.","Several outcome domains in the corpus rest on single-study evidence, which precludes internal replication and inflates the risk that observed effects are idiosyncratic to a particular design, population, or analytic approach. Likewise, airway inflammation and emphysema attenuation were demonstrated exclusively in Tian 2026 using ozone-exposed mice treated with intraperitoneal rapamycin at 0.6 mg/kg, and cardiac function preservation in autoimmune myocarditis was reported only by Zhuang 2025, who showed rapamycin reprogrammed Cxcl9+ macrophages via the mTORC1–C/EBPβ–OSM axis. Cardiac proteomic remodeling was studied only by Dai 2014, who used deuterated-leucine labeling over 10 weeks of rapamycin exposure, while the longevity-in-Drosophila pathway was examined solely by Bjedov 2010. The ME/CFS fatigue endpoint was explored in only Ruan 2025, a pilot study administering 6 mg/week rapamycin with symptom assessments at days 30, 60, and 90. In each of these cases, a single source cannot establish whether the effect is robust across independent laboratories, species, or populations. This single-trial limitation is not confined to minor outcomes: the cross-study disagreement map documents severity-3 or severity-4 disagreements for the contextual other outcome class across 161 non-orthogonal pairs, yet many of these tensions involve one or both arms supported by only a single study, making adjudication between conflicting signals impossible within the current corpus.","The population base of the curated trials narrows external validity in several ways that cannot be resolved by pooling alone. Preclinical sources — including Bitto 2016 (middle-aged mice), Harrison 2009 (genetically heterogeneous mice), Miller 2014 (dose-response in mice), Tian 2026 (ozone-exposed mice), and Pell 2026 (female mice with early-life seizures) — collectively dominate the longevity and mechanistic outcome classes, yet interspecies translation of mTOR inhibition remains uncertain because murine mTOR signaling kinetics, rapamycin pharmacokinetics, and lifespan architecture differ from those of humans. Stanfield 2026 tested once-weekly sirolimus at 6 mg in older adults already engaged in a 13-week exercise program, which introduces a selection bias toward motivated, physically active participants who may not represent the sedentary majority at risk for age-related decline. No study in the corpus enrolled pregnant individuals, persons with severe renal or hepatic impairment, or immunocompromised populations such as organ-transplant recipients on concurrent immunosuppression, leaving safety and efficacy in these vulnerable groups entirely uncharacterized. Consequently, the synthesis conclusions apply most directly to middle-aged to older, relatively healthy adults or to murine models, and extrapolation beyond these groups requires assumptions that the present evidence cannot anchor.","The endpoint scope of the corpus is heavily weighted toward mechanistic, surrogate, and contextual outcomes rather than clinically meaningful endpoints validated against hard disease outcomes, which introduces a translation gap that should be made explicit. No source in the curated set measured incident type 2 diabetes, fracture incidence, hospitalization for heart failure, or time-to-progression of any cancer as a primary endpoint; the cardiometabolic class is represented only by Zhang 2021 and Su 2025, both mechanistic studies examining BCRP-mediated drug resistance and MAGEA3 biomarkers rather than patient-centered outcomes. Rosario 2023 investigated rapamycin's attenuation of PI3K signaling in human ovarian cortex in vitro, providing mechanistic evidence for fertility preservation, but no clinical trial in the corpus reported on pregnancy rates, ovarian reserve markers such as anti-Müllerian hormone trajectory, or time-to-conception in women receiving rapamycin. A broader methodological concern is that several sources relied on surrogate endpoints whose clinical validity for the aging context is unestablished: as noted in the general methodological literature (Ioannidis 2005), surrogate associations do not guarantee hard-outcome validity. Hallmarks such as senescence-associated secretory phenotype suppression (Wang 2017) and mTOR-pathway phosphorylation changes (Hibbert 2026) are biologically informative but remain at least one mechanistic step removed from endpoints that patients or clinicians would recognize as meaningful improvements in survival, disability, or quality of life. Until the evidence base includes trials that bridge from these mechanistic surrogates to validated clinical endpoints, the risk-benefit calculus for off-label rapamycin use in healthy adults remains fundamentally unresolved.","For rapamycin biomarker effects, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and mechanistic evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation.The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging.","Across 30 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Rapamycin Biomarker Effects shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: contextual other, immune inflammation. Negative signals appear in: contextual other. Null findings dominate: contextual other, safety comorbidity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. 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