Dawra R
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· 3 papers in corpus
BackgroundChronic pancreatitis (CP) is an inflammatory disease of the pancreas with loss of exocrine/endocrine functions as well as development of fibrosis. Dysbiosis of gut microbiome has been shown to be involved in the pathogenesis of ma…
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Experimental studies in acute pancreatitis (AP) suggest a strong association of acinar cell injury with cathepsin B-dependent intracellular activation of trypsin. However, the molecular events subsequent to trypsin activa…
BACKGROUND & AIMS: The role of trypsinogen activation in the pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis (AP) has not been clearly established. METHODS: We generated and characterized mice lacking trypsinogen isoform 7 (T7) gene (T(-/-)). The effec…