MTOR and endometriosis: mTOR activation influences the development and progression of endometriosis by regulating autophagy and apoptosis factors, modulating adhesion and cell–cell adhesion molecules, promoting epithelial–mesenchymal transition angiogenesis, and controlling the microenvironment (Stubbings and Maund, 1988; McKinnon et al., 2016; Jing et al., 2019).