Cancer BiologybioRxiv
Systemic muscle wasting and coordinated tumour response drive tumourigenesis
H. Newton, Y.-F. Wang, L. Camplese…·S. Hirabayashi
The paper identifies a systemic nutrient circuit in Drosophila that links muscle wasting with tumour growth via proline scavenging, and shows similar patterns in human kidney cancer.
DOI 10.1038/s41467-020-18502-9