Adiponectin as a potential differential marker to distinguish pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Hypertriglyceridemia-induced pancreatitis is an important cause of acute pancreatitis (AP) in children, which lacks established guidelines. The aim of this study was to review management approaches at a single pediatric center. METHODS:This retrospective study included all inpatients younger than 21 years w...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Ippisch HM,Alfaro-Cruz L,Fei L,Zou Y,Thompson T,Abu-El-Haija M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic lesions of the pancreas include inflammatory pseudocysts, serous cystadenomas, and mucinous tumors, some of which are malignant. Preoperative clinical and radiological parameters are unreliable and may result in incorrect diagnosis and inappropriate treatment. Cyst fluid analysis for cytology, viscosity, carcin...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Yong WH,Southern JF,Pins MR,Warshaw AL,Compton CC,Lewandrowski KB

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to investigate the frequency, predictors, and management of relapse of type 1 autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) after steroid treatment. METHODS:One hundred one patients with type 1 AIP receiving steroid as initial treatment were enrolled. Predictors were identified by multivariate analysis usi...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Xin L,Meng QQ,Hu LH,Lin H,Pan J,Hao L,Liu PP,Qian W,Wang LW,Li ZS

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to evaluate the relevance of defining borderline resectable (BR) pancreatic cancer as a distinct entity in the treatment scheme of pancreatic cancer as proposed by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. METHODS:Among 375 patients with pancreatic cancer, 137 patients were ...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Yamada S,Fujii T,Sugimoto H,Nomoto S,Takeda S,Kodera Y,Nakao A

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Green tea polyphenols have been shown to inhibit tumor growth in animal and in vitro studies. We examined the relationship between green tea consumption and the risk of death from pancreatic cancer in a large Japanese cohort. METHODS:At baseline (1988-1990), study participants reported the frequency and amou...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Lin Y,Kikuchi S,Tamakoshi A,Yagyu K,Obata Y,Kurosawa M,Inaba Y,Kawamura T,Motohashi Y,Ishibashi T,JACC Study Group.

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Pancreatic carcinoma etiology and molecular pathogenesis is weakly understood. According to the assumption that genetic variation in carcinogen metabolism further modifies the risk of exposure-related cancers, an association of functional polymorphisms in oxidative stress-modifying genes superoxide dismutase...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Mohelnikova-Duchonova B,Marsakova L,Vrana D,Holcatova I,Ryska M,Smerhovsky Z,Slamova A,Schejbalova M,Soucek P

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Human primary microRNA-155/B-cell integration cluster (BIC) transcript is the precursor of microRNA-155. The overexpression of them has been widely observed in the progression of various types of tumors. Our objective was to investigate the effect of anticancer agents on the expression of BIC and possible si...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Xia QS,Ishigaki Y,Zhao X,Shimasaki T,Nakajima H,Nakagawa H,Takegami T,Chen ZH,Motoo Y

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surgical treatment of pancreatic cancer (PDAC) has seen sweeping changes during the past 5 decades. Up to the middle of the 20th century resection rates were below 5%, but the numbers of curative resections for PDAC are now continuously increasing due to improved neoadjuvant treatment concepts as well as progress ...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Hackert T,Klaiber U,Pausch T,Mihaljevic AL,Büchler MW

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) have been used in this study to investigate the morphology, nature, and arrangement of major, minor, and trace elements in human pancreatic calculi (PC) obtained from patients with alcoholic and tropical pancreatitis. The present study...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Pitchumoni CS,Viswanathan KV,Gee Varghese PJ,Banks PA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Pancreatic trauma is rare and often missed during initial assessment of patients with abdominal trauma. This study reviews our experience of managing pancreatic trauma at a tertiary referral center and discusses the diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. METHODS:A retrospective study of our prospectively ma...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Thomas H,Madanur M,Bartlett A,Marangoni G,Heaton N,Rela M

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased activity of various proteases is observed in both human and experimental pancreatitis; however, the information on the effects of specific protease inhibitors on the disease is limited. In this study we show that a novel elastase inhibitor, guamerin-derived synthetic peptide (GDSP), improves the parameters o...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Song M,Zaninovic V,Kim D,Gukovsky I,Gukovskaya A,Kang K,Pandol S

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The present study was conducted to monitor the expression of pancreas and duodenal homeobox gene (PDX-1) for assessing beta-cell function in islets from patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP). METHODS:Islets isolated from the pancreata of 40 surgical patients categorized as control group, patients with mil...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Mitnala S,Pondugala PK,Guduru VR,Rabella P,Thiyyari J,Chivukula S,Boddupalli S,Hardikar AA,Reddy DN

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Presentation of pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PC) as acute pancreatitis (AP), association of chronic pancreatitis (CP) with PC, and role of inflammation in PC carcinogenesis are well recognized. We hypothesized that inflammatory changes associated with remote history of AP (≥2 years before PC diagnosis) would r...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Phillips AE,Shah N,Borhani AA,Yadav D,Brand RE

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free radicals have been implicated in beta-cell destruction. pancreatic antioxidant enzymatic defenses provide significant endogenous protection from these highly cytotoxic effector molecules. In our colony of BB rats, the reliability of peripheral blood lymphocyte count (PBLC) as a predictor of diabetes onset was ass...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Roza AM,Pieper GM,Johnson CP,Adams MB

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because abnormalities of the autonomic nervous system have been described in several animal models of obesity, and because galanin has been proposed to be a sympathetic neurotransmitter in the endocrine pancreas, we hypothesized that the hyperinsulinemia observed in genetically obese (ob/ob) mice may result either fro...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Dunning BE,Ahrén B

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Main pancreatic duct (MPD)-narrowed chronic pancreatitis (CP) may be an autoimmune abnormality. It also has been called autoimmune pancreatitis and sclerosing pancreatitis. It is unclear whether cases with focal pancreatographic changes are part of the same clinical entity as cases with diffuse MPD changes...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Wakabayashi T,Kawaura Y,Satomura Y,Fujii T,Motoo Y,Okai T,Sawabu N

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed molecular biological studies as well as immunohistochemical analysis of three cases of giant cell carcinoma of the pancreas. Histologically, one case was a pleomorphic giant cell carcinoma consisting of pleomorphic giant/ small cells and spindle cells, one an osteoclast-like giant cell tumor composed of o...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Imai Y,Morishita S,Ikeda Y,Toyoda M,Ashizawa T,Yamamoto K,Inoue T,Ishikawa T

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognosis of patients with alpha-fetoprotein (AFP)-producing pancreatic cancer is generally very poor. We, however, present a case of a 33-year-old man who survived AFP-producing pancreatic cancer and its metachronous liver metastasis. The patient had undergone a curative total pancreatectomy for AFP-producing pan...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Natsume T,Watanabe Y,Maruyama T,Tanaka H,Sunouchi K,Tohma T,Noju M,Muto Y,Tohnosu N,Uehara T,Shimizu S,Ochiai T,Nabeya Y

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Our aim was to establish and characterize a novel pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cell line from a patient in whom the origin of the invasive carcinoma could be traced back to the intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN) precursor lesion. METHODS:The primary patient-derived tumor was propagated in im...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Heller A,Angelova AL,Bauer S,Grekova SP,Aprahamian M,Rommelaere J,Volkmar M,Janssen JW,Bauer N,Herr I,Giese T,Gaida MM,Bergmann F,Hackert T,Fritz S,Giese NA

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:All forms of commonly practiced enteral feeding techniques stimulate pancreatic secretion, and only intravenous feeding avoids it. In this study, we explored the possibility of more distal enteral infusions of tube feeds to see whether activation of the ileal brake mechanism can result in enteral feeding with...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Kaushik N,Pietraszewski M,Holst JJ,O'Keefe SJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hedgehog (Hh) family of genes, sonic hedgehog (Shh), Indian hedgehog (Ihh), and desert hedgehog (Dhh) encode signaling molecules that regulate multiple functions during organ development and in adult tissues. Altered hedgehog signaling has been implicated in disturbed organ development as well as in different dege...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Kayed H,Kleeff J,Osman T,Keleg S,Büchler MW,Friess H

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of endogenous prostaglandins (PGs) in pancreatic endocrine and exocrine secretion was investigated, using the isolated and perfused dog pancreas. Spontaneous production of both PGE2 and 6-keto-PGF1 alpha was recorded in venous effluent. Prostaglandin production increased following stimulation with both...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Kuroda T,Sodeyama H,Hanazaki K,Horigome N,Kajikawa S,Yamagishi K,Horiuchi A,Iwatsuki K,Chiba S,Homma T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a leading cause of hospitalization for a gastrointestinal illness in the United States. We hypothesized that enhanced recovery approaches may lead to earlier time to refeeding in patients with AP. METHODS:We performed a double-blind, randomized controlled trial of patients admitte...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Dong E,Chang JI,Verma D,Butler RK,Villarin CK,Kwok KK,Chen W,Wu BU

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review article has 4 major objectives to follow pancreatic physiology development more than close to 70 years of intensive and productive basic research. At first, the review will focus on secretion of the pancreatic enzymes with (1) the controls involved, (2) the interrelations existing between secretion and syn...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Morisset J

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:There are limited data comparing imaging modalities in the diagnosis of pancreas divisum. We aimed to: (1) evaluate the sensitivity of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP), and multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) for pancreas divisum; and (2) assess interobserv...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Kushnir VM,Wani SB,Fowler K,Menias C,Varma R,Narra V,Hovis C,Murad FM,Mullady DK,Jonnalagadda SS,Early DS,Edmundowicz SA,Azar RR

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether human heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) gene has protective action on islets cultured in vitro, and to explore whether transduction of HO-1 gene to donor islets could enhance engrafted islets survival and suppress local lymphocytic infiltration in islet grafts. METHODS:Newly isolated rat islets ...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Li Y,Li G,Dong W,Chen J,Lu D,Tan J

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genistein is a plant isoflavonoid bearing potent tumor growth-regulating characteristics. This effect of genistein has been attributed partially to its tyrosine kinase-regulating properties, resulting in cell-cycle arrest and limited angiogenesis. Genistein has been used in chemotherapy-resistant cases of advanced leu...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Boros LG,Bassilian S,Lim S,Lee WN

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) binding sites in adult rat exocrine pancreas were studied by autoradiography using slide-mounted frozen tissue sections with mono-iodinated ANF (101-126) as the tracer. Radiolabel was displaced by unlabeled atrial peptide (IC50 = 2 X 10(-11) M). High specific labeling was found in pancr...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Chabot JG,Morel G,Kopelman H,Belles-Isles M,Heisler S

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Members of the transient receptor potential (TRP) channels are involved in mediating the electrical excitability and stimulus-secretion coupling in the pancreatic β-cells. The expression and the relative abundance of different TRP channels in the human β-cells are unknown. The objective of this study was to e...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Marabita F,Islam MS

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exocrine proteins contained in human pancreatic juice were analyzed by reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC). Pancreatic juice was saved by endoscopic retrograde cannulation of the main pancreatic duct in 17 persons: 12 without pancreatic disease, 3 patients suffering from recurrent acute pan...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Göke B,Keim V,Dagorn JC,Arnold R,Adler G

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00