The inflammatory cascade in acute pancreatitis: relevance to clinical disease. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Acute pancreatitis is an inflammatory condition that is initiated by the intra pancreatic activation of proteases. Pancreatic enzyme activation triggers a local and systemic inflammatory response that is associated with recruitment of inflammatory cells into the pancreas and a widespread up-regulation of inflammatory markers in distant tissues.

publication date

  • December 1, 2007

Research

keywords

  • Pancreatitis

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 36349001745

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.suc.2007.09.002

PubMed ID

  • 18053834

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 87

issue

  • 6