Shifting the focus from leukocyte to acinar cell: Which is the more important mediator of pancreatic inflammation?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 248-

  Mayer, Jens M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acinar cell; Inflammation; Leukocyte; Pancreatitis; Trypsin; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

TRYPSIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACINAR CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL FUNCTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; ASCITIC FLUID; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; PANCREAS, EXOCRINE; PANCREATITIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 12244304180     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000150745.34071.44     Document Type: Editorial

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