Blood flow in endogenous and transplanted pancreatic islets in anesthetized rats: effects of lactate and pyruvate.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In autoimmune diseases, malignancies, and inflammatory conditions, a correlation of serum levels of CD44, interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2r), and neopterin with disease activity could be shown. AIMS:To assess the immune parameters in chronic pancreatitis in correlation to clinical data to evaluate the potenti...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Schlosser W,Gansauge F,Schlosser S,Gansauge S,Beger HG

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Acute pancreatitis (AP) guidelines for adult patients do not recommend routine prophylactic use of antibiotics because of no clinical merit on mortality, infectious complications, or length of stay. Although the mortality of pediatric AP is low, no studies have explored the rationale for antibiotic use in pe...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Ikeda Kurakawa K,Okada A,Jo T,Ono S,Bessho K,Michihata N,Matsui H,Yamaguchi S,Fushimi K,Kadowaki T,Yasunaga H

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A selective therapy for pancreatitis is total pancreatectomy and islet autotransplantation. Outcomes and geographical variability of patients who had total pancreatectomy (TP) alone or total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplantation (TPIAT) were assessed. METHODS:Data were obtained from the Healthcare C...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Lara LF,Bellin MD,Ugbarugba E,Nathan JD,Witkowski P,Wijkstrom M,Steel JL,Smith KD,Singh VK,Schwarzenberg SJ,Pruett TL,Naziruddin B,Long-Simpson L,Kirchner VA,Gardner TB,Freeman ML,Dunn TB,Chinnakotla S,Beilman GJ,Ad

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic aspects of 27 patients with pancreatopleural fistula (PPF) reported in the literature, and two additional patients managed by the authors, form the basis of this report. The diagnosis of PPF is based on the triad of massive pleural effusions, elevated pleural fluid amylase, an...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Bedingfield JA,Anderson MC

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) has improved overall survival in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), but its effects on immune gene signatures are unknown. Here, we examined the immune transcriptome after NAC for PDAC. METHODS:Resected tumor specimens were obtained from 140 patients with P...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Hane Y,Tsuchikawa T,Nakamura T,Hatanaka KC,Saito T,Tanaka K,Nakanishi Y,Asano T,Noji T,Okamura K,Shichinohe T,Yokota I,Hatanaka Y,Hirano S

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (PET) are sophisticated modalities typically used in the second-line diagnosis following routine clinical practice. Among them, CT is regarded as the standard imaging in diagnosing pancreatic cancer at present in Japan due to ...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Saisho H,Yamaguchi T

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Adhesion of tumor cells to extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins plays an important role in tumor invasion and metastasis. AIMS:To investigate the expression of integrins in human pancreatic cancer cell lines and its alteration by interleukin (IL)-1alpha to examine the mechanism of adhesion of metastatic hu...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Sawai H,Yamamoto M,Okada Y,Sato M,Akamo Y,Takeyama H,Manabe T

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Pancreatic duct disruption (PDD) after acute pancreatitis can cause pancreatic collections in the early phase and biliary stenosis (BS) or gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) in the late phase. We aimed to document those late complications after moderate or severe acute pancreatitis. METHODS:Between September ...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Sugimoto M,Sonntag DP,Flint GS,Boyce CJ,Kirkham JC,Harris TJ,Carr SM,Nelson BD,Bell DA,Barton JG,Traverso LW

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) is an antioxidant enzyme that inhibits the oxidative modification of LDL. Since PON1 has been shown to express in pancreatic islets and oxidative stress plays a role in beta-cell dysfunction, we investigated the impact of the PON1 polymorphisms on beta-cell function. This study included 84 healthy...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Chiu KC,Chuang LM,Chu A,Lu J,Hu J,Fernando S

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To provide histologic correlation of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) findings believed to represent chronic pancreatitis (CP). METHODS:Eighteen postmortem pancreatic specimens in patients dying of all causes were examined in vitro by EUS for features of CP: (1) echogenic foci, (2) hypoechoic foci, (3) echogenic...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Bhutani MS,Arantes VN,Verma D,Moezzi J,Suryaprasad S,Kapadia AS,Gopalswamy N

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This prospective study aimed to pinpoint acute pancreatic patients who are at a higher risk of clinical deterioration. Once identified, they can be given more costly intensive-care therapy or transferred promptly to hospitals with specialized equipment. Our study included 217 patients with acute pancreatitis. All of t...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Lankisch PG,Pflichthofer D,Lehnick D

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Angiogenesis plays a major role in tumor progression and metastasis; however, its role in pancreatic cancer (PC) remains unclear. The aim of the study was to explore the cumulative evidence concerning the impact of microvessel density (MVD), an estimator of angiogenesis, on resected PC patients. METHODS:A s...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Ntellas P,Dadouli K,Perivoliotis K,Sogka E,Pentheroudakis G,Ioannou M,Hadjichristodoulou C,Tepetes K,Mauri D

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although previous reports suggest interactions between the endocrine and the exocrine pancreas, insulin's effect on pancreatic exocrine function remains unclear. Chronic pancreatic fistulae were created in five dogs; these animals were studied using the euglycemic, hyperinsulinemic clamp technique. After a 30-min unst...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Berry SM,Fink AS

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of a commercially available enzyme immunoassay method for the determination of lipase concentration in human duodenal fluid is reported. Variations in the test procedure have been investigated. A sample incubation and a conjugate incubation of 1 h at 37 degrees C are necessary. There is substantial agr...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Hafkenscheid JC,Hessels M,Kerstens PJ,Lamers CB

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucine is known to enhance insulin secretion from islets of Langerhans, and insulin promotes leucine uptake in peripheral tissues. The present studies were designed to elucidate the effects of leucine on glucose responsiveness and stimulus secretion coupling in mouse islets of Langerhans. The effects of 20 mM leucine...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Brouwer AE,Carroll PB,Atwater IJ

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Tissue desmoplasia occurs in a number of disease states, but its molecular basis is poorly understood. To determine which genes are overexpressed in cells contained within the desmoplastic stroma of pancreatic adenocarcinoma and chronic pancreatitis, we undertook genetic profiling of microdissected tissue sa...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Binkley CE,Zhang L,Greenson JK,Giordano TJ,Kuick R,Misek D,Hanash S,Logsdon CD,Simeone DM

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：:We investigated the role of platelet-activating factor (PAF) as a priming signal for cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant (CINC) expression by bronchoalveolar macrophages in acute pancreatitis. Pancreatitis was induced by four intramuscular injections of cerulein (50 micrograms/kg at 1-h intervals) in Wistar ra...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Yamaguchi Y,Matsumura F,Liang J,Okabe K,Matsuda T,Ohshiro H,Ishihara K,Akizuki E,Yamada S,Ogawa M

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro incorporation of [35S]cysteine into lipase, colipase, amylase, procarboxypeptidase A and B, and the serine proteases and total proteins was studied in pancreatic lobules isolated from normal and diabetic rats with or without insulin treatment. The incorporation of [35S]cysteine into total proteins was 65%...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Duan RD,Erlanson-Albertsson C

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of manganese (Mn2+) on phosphorylation activity in the rat pancreas were examined in an in vitro phosphorylation assay and by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) of endogenous proteins. Several histones were phosphorylated in the presence of pancreatic supernatant obtained ...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Brockenbrough JS,Korc M

更新日期：1990-09-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to perform an external validation of 2 Asian prognostic indices for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer. METHODS:A score was calculated in patients treated with frontline therapy derived from the factors Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status, localization...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Haas M,Laubender RP,Klose C,Schulz C,Mansmann U,Boeck S,Heinemann V

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of the rapid urinary trypsinogen-2 test strip in post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) pancreatitis. METHODS:A total of 150 patients were tested with the urinary trypsinogen-2 test strip and serum levels of amylase a...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Tseng CW,Chen CC,Lin SZ,Chang FY,Lin HC,Lee SD

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) and pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN) are both precancerous lesions. Papillary mucinous neoplasms have been described in patients with IPMN, but their relationship is still poorly understood. The aims of this study were to look for PanIN lesions in ...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Maire F,Couvelard A,Palazzo L,Aubert A,Vullierme MP,Rebours V,Hammel P,Sauvanet A,Levy P,Ruszniewski P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study was to investigate the biochemical and functional properties of a rat acellular pancreatic bioscaffolds (APBs). METHODS:Fresh pancreata from 10 rats were soaked and perfused through portal veins using Easy-Load Digital Drive peristaltic pumps. The histological structure, extracellular ma...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Wang X,Li YG,Du Y,Zhu JY,Li Z

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Clinical and morphological criteria are not precise enough to diagnose early chronic pancreatitis (CP). We investigated if short endoscopic pancreas function testing as a part of routine upper endoscopy could improve clinical diagnostics. METHODS:Patients with suspected CP underwent modified secretin-stimul...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Erchinger F,Engjom T,Tjora E,Hoem D,Hausken T,Gilja OH,Dimcevski G

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to develop target-specific binding agents for in vitro and in vivo imaging of human pancreatic cancer. METHODS:A monoclonal neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL)-specific antibody and a peptide specific for matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) were labeled with a near-infrared dye for...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Wang W,Lin J,Guha S,Tong Z,Cameron AG,Zhang F,Qiu X,Zou C,Gao X,Mawad ME,Ke S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A simple urinary trypsinogen-2 test was evaluated for the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis. METHODS:This prospective multicenter study enrolled consecutive patients with acute abdominal pain who presented to the emergency department or who were hospitalized at 1 of 21 medical institutions in Japan. Patients ...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Mayumi T,Inui K,Maetani I,Yokoe M,Sakamoto T,Yoshida M,Ko S,Hirata K,Takada T,Urinary Trypsinogen-2 Dipstick for Acute Pancreatitis Study Group of Japanese Society of Abdominal Emergency Medicine (UtrAP Study Group).

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of the present study was to compare the development of murine embryonic pancreas in vitro and in vivo. METHODS:Murine embryonic pancreas at 12.5 days of gestation was dissected and cultured at the air-medium interface. At 1, 3, and 7 days of culture, the characteristics of cultured murine pancre...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Ma F,Haumaitre C,Chen F,Han Z

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00