Masamune A

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus · active 2001-2019
2019
Prospective study of early chronic pancreatitis diagnosed based on the Japanese diagnostic criteria.
Journal of gastroenterology ·doi:10.1007/s00535-019-01602-9

BackgroundChronic pancreatitis (CP) is a fibro-inflammatory disease of the pancreas. Early diagnosis and intervention, before CP becomes established and irreversible, are essential to improve the long-term outcomes. The world's first diagno…

2013
Variants in CPA1 are strongly associated with early onset chronic pancreatitis.
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/ng.2730

Chronic pancreatitis is an inflammatory disorder of the pancreas. We analyzed CPA1, encoding carboxypeptidase A1, in subjects with nonalcoholic chronic pancreatitis (cases) and controls in a German discovery set and three replication sets. …

2001
Analysis of the human pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor (PSTI) gene mutations in Japanese patients with chronic pancreatitis.
Journal of human genetics ·doi:10.1007/s100380170082

Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a continuing or relapsing inflammatory disease of the pancreas. Several studies have demonstrated that mutations in the cationic trypsinogen (PRSS1) gene and the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulat…