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Hypothesis: how do JAK2-inhibitors work in myelofibrosis.
Leukemia research - 1 Sept 2009
Mesa Ruben, Gale Robert Peter
Abstract excerpt
JAK2-inhibitors rapidly reduce spleen enlargement and clinical symptoms in persons with myelofibrosis but have little, if any, effect on the WBC, anemia, decreased platelets or bone marrow fibrosis. Also, JAK2-inhibitors are active in persons with and without the JAK2-mutation. Based on these and other data we suggest that the predominant effect of JAK2-inhibitors in persons with myelofibrosis is on normal rather...
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