Friess H

No ORCID on file · 5 papers in corpus · active 1994-2013
2013
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. …

2010
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…

2006
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/ng1797

Chronic pancreatitis is a common inflammatory disease of the pancreas. Mutations in the genes encoding cationic trypsinogen (PRSS1) and the pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor (SPINK1) are associated with chronic pancreatitis. Because in…

2003
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…

1994
The American Journal of Pathology

Acidic fibroblast growth factor (aFGF) and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) belong to a family of mitogenic polypeptides that are involved in cellular proliferation and differentiation. In this study we investigated the potential role …