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SUBMITTER: Staudacher JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5630611 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Staudacher Jonas J JJ Yazici Cemal C Carroll Timothy T Bauer Jessica J Pang Jingbo J Krett Nancy N Xia Yinglin Y Wilson Annette A Papachristou Georgios G Dirmeier Andrea A Kunst Claudia C Whitcomb David C DC Fantuzzi Giamila G Jung Barbara B
Scientific reports 20171006 1
Acute Pancreatitis is a substantial health care challenge with increasing incidence. Patients who develop severe disease have considerable mortality. Currently, no reliable predictive marker to identify patients at risk for severe disease exists. Treatment is limited to rehydration and supporting care suggesting an urgent need to develop novel approaches to improve standard care. Activin is a critical modulator of inflammatory responses, but has not been assessed in pancreatitis. Here, we demons ...[more]