The link between defective autophagy and pancreatitis could point to new treatments
Researchers are exploring a new potential avenue for pancreatitis treatment: autophagy, a cellular recycling process.
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A proposed model of impaired autophagy in experimental acute pancreatitis induced by ...
Cerulein or alcohol impairs autophagy at multiple steps to promote pancreatitis. Cerulein or alcohol decreases pancreatic VMP1 to impair the closure of autophagosomes. Cerulein also decreases STX17 to ...
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Some cancer drug could treat diabetes, study finds
More intriguingly, they found a cluster of pancreatic cells simultaneously producing insulin and amylase—a phenomenon not observed under normal conditions, as insulin is typically produced by beta ...
Repurposed cancer drug could treat diabetes by nudging pancreatic acinar cells to produce ...
University of Pittsburgh researchers Dr. Farzad Esni, Ph.D., and Jing Hu, Ph.D., did an experiment in mice where they deleted ...