Zobeida Cruz-Monserrate
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· 3 papers in corpus
OBJECTIVES: Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is an inflammatory disease affecting the absorption of fat-soluble nutrients. Signaling in pancreatic cells that lead to inflammation may be influenced by fatty acids (FAs) through diet and de novo lipo…
INTRODUCTION: Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a progressive fibroinflammatory disorder lacking therapies and biomarkers. Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is a proinflammatory cytokine elevated during inflammation that binds fa…
Pancreatic adenocarcinomas are highly invasive cancers for reasons that are currently unclear. Here we sought to determine if the proinvasive integrin alpha6beta4 may be related to pancreatic adenocarcinoma tumor progression. Expression of …