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SUBMITTER: Durgampudi C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4044711 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Durgampudi Chandra C Noel Pawan P Patel Krutika K Cline Rachel R Trivedi Ram N RN DeLany James P JP Yadav Dhiraj D Papachristou Georgios I GI Lee Kenneth K Acharya Chathur C Jaligama Deepthi D Navina Sarah S Murad Faris F Singh Vijay P VP
The American journal of pathology 20140601 6
Obese patients have worse outcomes during acute pancreatitis (AP). Previous animal models of AP have found worse outcomes in obese rodents who may have a baseline proinflammatory state. Our aim was to study the role of acute lipolytic generation of fatty acids on local severity and systemic complications of AP. Human postpancreatitis necrotic collections were analyzed for unsaturated fatty acids (UFAs) and saturated fatty acids. A model of biliary AP was designed to replicate the human variables ...[more]