Immunocytes and activated stellate cells in pancreatic fibrogenesis

Pancreas

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 239-242

  Jaskiewicz, Kaz ^a   Nalecz, Adam ^a   Rzepko, Robert ^a   Sledzinski, Zbigniew ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chronic pancreatitis; Immunocytes; Stellate cells

Indexed keywords

SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL ACTIVATION; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; FEMALE; FIBRIN FORMATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STELLATE CELL;

CELL COUNT; CHRONIC DISEASE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MACROPHAGES; MAST CELLS; MONOCYTES; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS;

EID: 0037381404     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006676-200304000-00006     Document Type: Article

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