Molecular Mechanisms of Pancreatic Stone Formation in Chronic Pancreatitis

Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a progressive inflammatory disease in which the pancreatic secretory parenchyma is destroyed and replaced by fibrosis. The presence of intraductal pancreatic stone(s) is important for the diagnosis of CP; however, the precise molecular mechanisms of pancreatic stone form...

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Main Authors: Ko, Shigeru B. H., Azuma, Sakiko, Yoshikawa, Toshiyuki, Yamamoto, Akiko, Kyokane, Kazuhiro, Ko, Minoru S. H., Ishiguro, Hiroshi
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3488765/