Sugar thieves and addicts: nutrient subversion in JAK2 MPNs | Blood | American Society of Hematology

Unexplained weight loss and cachexia are key hallmarks of cancer and advanced myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). In this issue of Blood, Rao et al describe their investigation of the metabolic response to JAK2 mutation in mouse models, which demonstrated that the presence of the JAK2-mutant clone leads to hypoglycemia and adipose tissue atrophy as a…

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