ABSTRACT Wound healing is complex and requires adequate amounts of macro‐ and micronutrients. When wound healing is delayed, a wound is considered chronic. Increasing evidence shows that vitamin deficiencies are prevalent in patients with chronic wounds, yet intervention studies with vitamin supplementation yielded inconsistent effects.
Michiel G. J. Balvers +6 more
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Pancreatic exocrine function in diabetes mellitus. Determination of fecal elastase [PDF]
Background: One of the complications of diabetes mellitus is the development of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency. Aim: To study pancreatic exocrine function in diabetics patients.
Ledezma R., Rodrigo +7 more
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Pancreatic Polypeptide in Parkinson’s Disease: A Potential Marker of Parasympathetic Denervation
Background and objectives: Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients experience several non-motor symptoms from the gastrointestinal tract that may partly be caused by parasympathetic deficiency.
Karoline Knudsen +7 more
doaj +1 more source
Exocrine dysfunction correlates with endocrinal impairment of pancreas in Type 2 diabetes mellitus
Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic abnormal metabolic condition, which manifests elevated blood sugar level over a prolonged period. The pancreatic endocrine system generally gets affected during diabetes, but often abnormal exocrine ...
H R Prasanna Kumar +3 more
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Excess pancreatic elastase alters acinar-β cell communication by impairing the mechano-signaling and the PAR2 pathways. [PDF]
Basile G +17 more
europepmc +1 more source
Pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor stimulates the growth of rat pancreatic carcinoma cells [PDF]
Pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor was examined for growth-promoting activity on five cell lines using standard cell culture techniques. One cell line, AR4-2J, derived from a rat pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma, responded with significantly ...
Curry, B J +3 more
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Trappin ovine molecule (TOM), the ovine ortholog of elafin, is an acute phase reactant in the lung [PDF]
As large animal models continue to play an important role in translating lung-directed therapeutic strategies from laboratory animals to humans, there is an increasing interest in the analysis of endogenous regulators of inflammation at both a genomic ...
Collie, D David +4 more
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Lymphatic vessel remodeling and invasion in pancreatic cancer progressionResearch in context
Background: The lymphatic system is involved in metastasis in pancreatic cancer progression. In cancer staging, lymphatic spread has been used to assess the invasiveness of tumor cells.
Chia-Ning Shen +14 more
doaj +1 more source
A neutrophil mimicking metal-porphyrin-based nanodevice loaded with porcine pancreatic elastase for cancer therapy. [PDF]
Cui T +7 more
europepmc +1 more source
[18F]Fluorothymidine Uptake in the Porcine Pancreatic Elastase-Induced Model of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm. [PDF]
Gandhi R +3 more
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