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SUBMITTER: Ansari D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4607840 | biostudies-other | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Ansari David D Ansari Daniel D Andersson Roland R Andrén-Sandberg Åke Å
Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition 20151001 5
The connection between pancreatic cancer and venous thrombosis has been discussed for almost 150 years. The exact pathophysiological mechanisms are still partly understood, but it is known that pancreatic cancer induces a prothrombotic and hypercoagulable state and genetic events involved in neoplastic transformation (e.g., KRAS, c-MET, p53), procoagulant factors [e.g., tissue factor (TF), platelet factor 4 (PF4), plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1)], mucin production (e.g., through a ...[more]