Diagnosis of pancreatic disease in feline platynosomosis. [PDF]
J Feline Med Surg, 2017 Objectives: Platynosomum species are cat-specific parasitic trematodes that parasitize the biliary ducts and gall bladder. Due to the common connection to the major duodenal papilla of the pancreas and common bile ducts in addition to the periductal ...
Köster LS +4 more
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Staging chronic pancreatitis with exocrine function tests: Are we better? [PDF]
, 2017 Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is an inflammatory disease of the pancreas evolving in progressive fibrotic disruption of the gland with exocrine and endocrine pancreatic insufficiency.
MOLETTA, LUCIA, SPERTI, COSIMO
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Microbiota, Oral Microbiome, and Pancreatic Cancer [PDF]
, 2014 Only 30% of patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer survive one year post-diagnosis. Progress in understanding the causes of pancreatic cancer has been made, including solidifying the associations with obesity and diabetes, and a proportion of cases ...
Izard, Jacques, Michaud, Dominique S.
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Role of Fibre in Nutritional Management of Pancreatic Diseases [PDF]
, 2019 The role of fibre intake in the management of patients with pancreatic disease is still controversial. In acute pancreatitis, a prebiotic enriched diet is associated with low rates of pancreatic necrosis infection, hospital stay, systemic inflammatory ...
Badiali, Danilo +7 more
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Cost-effectiveness of diagnostic laparoscopy for assessing resectability in pancreatic and periampullary cancer. [PDF]
, 2015 Surgical resection is the only curative treatment for pancreatic and periampullary cancer, but many patients undergo unnecessary laparotomy because tumours can be understaged by computerised tomography (CT).
Davidson, BR +3 more
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Alternatively activated macrophages promote pancreatic fibrosis in chronic pancreatitis. [PDF]
, 2015 Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a progressive and irreversible inflammatory and fibrotic disease with no cure. Unlike acute pancreatitis (AP), we find that alternatively activated macrophages (AAMs) are dominant in mouse and human CP.
Chawla, Ajay +6 more
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Novel elucidation and treatment of pancreatic chronic graft-versus-host disease in mice [PDF]
, 2018 Chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) is a severe complication of allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. There is a growing understanding of cGVHD, and several effective therapies for cGVHD have been reported.
Kawakami, Yutaka +4 more
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Targeting Glycolysis with Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate Enhances the Efficacy of Chemotherapeutics in Pancreatic Cancer Cells and Xenografts. [PDF]
, 2019 Pancreatic cancer is a complex disease, in need of new therapeutic approaches. In this study, we explored the effect and mechanism of action of epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), a major polyphenol in green tea, alone and in combination with current ...
Hackman, Robert M +3 more
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Mutant p53R270H drives altered metabolism and increased invasion in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma [PDF]
, 2018 Pancreatic cancer is characterized by nearly universal activating mutations in KRAS. Among other somatic mutations, TP53 is mutated in more than 75% of human pancreatic tumors.
Daylan, Ayse Ece Cali +20 more
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Proteins associated with pancreatic cancer survival in patients with resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. [PDF]
, 2015 Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly lethal disease with a dismal prognosis. However, while most patients die within the first year of diagnosis, very rarely, a few patients can survive for >10 years.
Brentnall, Teresa A +15 more
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