Validation of the pretreatment neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio as a predictor of overall survival in a cohort of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study was to determine if there had been any change in the number of solid-pseudopapillary neoplasm (SPN) cases detected and their evaluation or management over time. METHODS:A systematic review of SPN was performed of all articles published in English in PubMed and Scopus. RESULTS:A total of...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Law JK,Ahmed A,Singh VK,Akshintala VS,Olson MT,Raman SP,Ali SZ,Fishman EK,Kamel I,Canto MI,Dal Molin M,Moran RA,Khashab MA,Ahuja N,Goggins M,Hruban RH,Wolfgang CL,Lennon AM

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pancreatic ductal carcinoma frequently recurs postoperatively, and we analyzed clinicopathological features of patients treated by surgical resection to find predictors of postoperative recurrence. METHODS:A retrospective cohort study was performed that included 69 patients between 1985 and 2003. Clinicopath...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Shibata K,Matsumoto T,Yada K,Sasaki A,Ohta M,Kitano S

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs) play a crucial role during pancreatic fibrosis development. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is a recently discovered gaseous transmitter, whose role in PSCs has not been explored yet. In the present study, we examined the effects of sodium hydrosulfide (NaHS), an H2S donor, on rat PSC...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Schwer CI,Stoll P,Goebel U,Buerkle H,Hoetzel A,Schmidt R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Previous research has shown that the retinoid 9-cis retinoic acid (RA) promotes apoptosis in pancreatic cancer cells. The vitamin D analog EB1089 does not. Furthermore, cotreatment of cells with 9-cis RA and EB1089 abrogates apoptosis. To explain this, we studied the regulation of proteins involved in apopto...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Mouratidis PX,Dalgleish AG,Colston KW

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to assess the association of hemodynamic factors with 90-day mortality in critically ill patients with severe acute pancreatitis (SAP). METHODS:One hundred fifty-nine consecutive patients with SAP admitted to the intensive care units between January 2005 and December 2008 were incl...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Wilkman E,Kaukonen KM,Pettilä V,Kuitunen A,Varpula M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The 2012 international consensus guidelines for the management of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN) of the pancreas stratified patients into 2 clinical categories, "high-risk stigmata" and "worrisome features," and recommended different therapeutic strategies for these groups. The aim of this st...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Aso T,Ohtsuka T,Matsunaga T,Kimura H,Watanabe Y,Tamura K,Ideno N,Osoegawa T,Takahata S,Shindo K,Ushijima Y,Aishima S,Oda Y,Ito T,Mizumoto K,Tanaka M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In 2003, the American Diabetes Association recommended that the lower limit for the diagnosis of impaired fasting glucose (IFG) should be reduced from 110 to 100 mg/dL in the analysis of the associated risk factors of IFG. It has been proposed that liver dysfunction may contribute to the development of type 2...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Hsiao JY,Wang CL,Hsia PJ,Hsieh MC,Hsin SC,Lin KD,Shin SJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The role of melatonin in human insulin regulation is poorly understood. AIM:To investigate the influence of melatonin supplementation on glucose and insulin levels and on lipid metabolism in blood serum and the liver. METHODOLOGY:The acute melatonin effects on insulin secretion in male Wistar rats were i...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Fabiś M,Pruszyńska E,Maćkowiak P

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Octreotide is used to treat patients with neuroendocrine tumors. Previous reports show that octreotide long-acting repeatable (LAR) dose and patient body weight affect nadir plasma octreotide levels (approximately 1250, 2500, 5000, and 11,000 pg/mL for LAR doses of 10, 20, 30 and 60 mg/mo). However, plasma oc...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Woltering EA,Salvo VA,O'Dorisio TM,Lyons J 3rd,Li G,Zhou Y,Seward JR,Go VL,Vinik AI,Mamikunian P,Mamikunian G

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the trends and death rates of pancreatic cancer and pancreatitis in Japan over the past four decades. It is a disturbing fact that the death rate due to pancreatic cancer is rising, parallel to that of lung cancer and colon cancer and that it is affecting primarily the elderly 65 years and older in both se...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Oomi K,Amano M

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (McAbs) to pancreatic cancer were developed by fusing SP2/0 cells and splenocytes from Balb/c mice immunized with CH-2 cells. The specific binding rates of McAb P1 and P2 were 40.1 and 43.8%, respectively, shown by binding radioreactivity assay in vitro, which were in sharp contrast with those of...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Yao CZ,Poston GJ,Ishizuka J,Townsend CM Jr,Thompson JC

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Patients undergoing therapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) are at a higher risk of developing post-ERCP pancreatitis than patients undergoing diagnostic ERCP. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of somatostatin in preventing post-therapeutic ERCP pancreatitis. ...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Lee KT,Lee DH,Yoo BM

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have demonstrated that cholecystokinin (CCK) receptor antagonists not only reduce the severity of pancreatitis but also inhibit pancreatic regeneration after pancreatitis. This study was undertaken, therefore, to examine the effects of the CCK receptor antagonist loxiglumide on the exocrine pancreas whe...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Nakano S,Tachibana I,Otsuki M

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdominal and/or back pain is one of the most common symptoms in patients with pancreatic cancer. However, the cause of the pain and the clinicopathologic features of patients with pain have not been fully elucidated. We retrospectively determined the factors related to preoperative abdominal and/or back pain in 95 pa...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Okusaka T,Okada S,Ueno H,Ikeda M,Shimada K,Yamamoto J,Kosuge T,Yamasaki S,Fukushima N,Sakamoto M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultivation and preservation of human pancreatic ductal cells have remained a challenge. With a defined culture medium and refinement of culturing techniques, we have been able to maintain human pancreatic ductal cells without any genetic manipulation in culture for more than 16 months. Freshly isolated ductal fragmen...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Ulrich AB,Schmied BM,Matsuzaki H,El-Metwally T,Moyer MP,Ricordi C,Adrian TE,Batra SK,Pour PM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a pancreatic stent regarding the prevention of post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) pancreatitis after aspiration of pure pancreatic juice in patients with intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms. METHODS:A retrospective stud...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Harada R,Kawamoto H,Fukatsu H,Kato H,Hirao K,Kurihara N,Mizuno O,Ogawa T,Ishida E,Okada H,Yamamoto K,Yamamoto H

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to establish a minimally invasive and simple screening test for detection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) using duodenal juice (DJ). METHODS:Duodenal juice was collected prospectively before endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography in 46 patients. A protease inhibi...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Mori Y,Ohtsuka T,Kono H,Nagayoshi Y,Ideno N,Aso T,Kozono S,Ohuchida K,Takahata S,Nakamura M,Mizumoto K,Tanaka M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Beacon gene expression is elevated in the hypothalamus of the Israeli sand rat (Psammomys obesus), an animal that is used as a polygenic animal model of obesity and NIDDM. We performed studies aimed at investigating the expression of beacon mRNA and protein in pancreatic islets of the rat and the possible bea...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Nowak KW,Ruciński M,Kaczmarek P,Szkudelski T,Malendowicz LK

更新日期：2004-08-01 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:IQ motif containing GTPase-activating protein 1 (IQGAP1) acts as a scaffold for aberrant mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling driven by KRAS mutations in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). We determined the role of IQGAP1 in clonogenic growth and metastasis in PDAC. METHODS:We inhibited I...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Li JH,McMillan RH,Begum A,Gocke CB,Matsui W

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The pancreas can metabolize ethanol via oxidative pathway involving the enzymes alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) as well as the nonoxidative pathway. In this study, we compared the activity of ADH isoenzymes and ALDH in the pancreatic cancer with the activity in normal tissue. In...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Jelski W,Chrostek L,Szmitkowski M

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Main duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) of the pancreas include neoplasms with varying likelihood of progression to malignancy. The aim of this study was to investigate a natural course of main duct IPMNs with a lower likelihood of malignancy. METHODS:Twenty main duct IPMNs with a lower l...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Uehara H,Ishikawa O,Ikezawa K,Kawada N,Inoue T,Takakura R,Takano Y,Tanaka S,Takenaka A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Secreted apoptosis-related protein (SARP) families are considered to counteract the oncogenic Wnt signaling pathway, and inactivation of this gene may aid cancer development and progression. Recently, the aberrant methylation of SARP2 was detected frequently in pancreatic carcinoma (PCa) tissue, but not in no...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Watanabe H,Okada G,Ohtsubo K,Yao F,Jiang PH,Mouri H,Wakabayashi T,Sawabu N

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The authors investigated if timing of medical treatment is associated with the analgesic effect of pregabalin or placebo in patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP). METHODS:Sixty-four patients received pregabalin (150-300 mg twice a day) or matching placebo for 3 consecutive weeks. Responders to treatment w...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Olesen SS,Graversen C,Bouwense SA,Wilder-Smith OH,van Goor H,Drewes AM

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Cigarette smoking is an independent risk factor for chronic pancreatitis. We conducted a systematic review of the literature assessing whether cigarette smoking is a risk factor for acute pancreatitis (AP) and recurrent AP (RAP). METHODS:MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews w...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Majumder S,Gierisch JM,Bastian LA

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Korean red ginseng (KRG) is a representative herbal remedy in Korea. We examined the effects of KRG treatment on superoxide dismutase inhibitor-induced experimental pancreatitis. METHODS:Sprague-Dawley rats and KRG from the roots of a 6-year-old fresh Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer plant were used in this study....

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Joo KR,Shin HP,Cha JM,Nam S,Huh Y

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate embryology of complete and incomplete pancreas divisum (PD). METHODS:We analyzed anatomy of the pancreatic duct system in 44 cases of complete PD and 41 cases of incomplete PD. Under the concept of branch fusion between the ventral and dorsal pancreatic ducts, incomplete PD was divided into 3...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Kamisawa T,Egawa N,Tu Y,Tsuruta K,Okamoto A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Most of the acetaldehyde, a recognized animal carcinogen, generated during alcohol metabolism is eliminated by liver mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2). More than 40% of Japanese have the inactive form of ALDH2, and inactive ALDH2 is a risk factor for multiple cancers of the esophagus as well as ...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Miyasaka K,Kawanami T,Shimokata H,Ohta S,Funakoshi A

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine if RNA collected from pancreatic tissue, without the use of RNAlater, is useful for RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) despite degradation, and if so, then, via RNA-seq analysis, how does gene expression vary between pancreatitis etiologies. METHODS:Data were assessed in 2 dimensions, based on RNA-seq si...

journal_title：Pancreas

authors： Blobner BM,Bellin MD,Beilman GJ,Shelton CA,Park HJ,Whitcomb DC

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00