Kleeff J

ORCID: 0000-0003-3432-6669 · 2 papers in corpus
2010
Organ-, inflammation- and cancer specific transcriptional fingerprints of pancreatic and hepatic stellate cells.
Molecular cancer ·doi:10.1186/1476-4598-9-88

BackgroundTissue fibrosis is an integral component of chronic inflammatory (liver and pancreas) diseases and pancreatic cancer. Activated pancreatic- (PSC) and hepatic- (HSC) stellate cells play a key role in fibrogenesis. To identify organ…

2003
COMP is selectively up-regulated in degenerating acinar cells in chronic pancreatitis and in chronic-pancreatitis-like lesions in pancreatic cancer.
Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology ·doi:10.1080/00365520310000717

BackgroundChronic pancreatitis (CP) is an inflammatory disease of the pancreas characterized histomorphologically by progressive development of fibrosis and atrophy of the pancreatic parenchyma. Cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) is…