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ReviewAnnual review of physiology2015

Regeneration and repair of the exocrine pancreas.

L Charles Murtaugh, Matthew D Keefe

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Review in Annual review of physiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 106 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
106citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
8.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

106 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 193 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Inhibition of hedgehog signaling ameliorates severity of chronic pancreatitis in experimental mouse models.American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology · 2025
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  17. Alterations in exocrine pancreatic function after acute pancreatitis.Pancreatology : official journal of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) ... [et al.] · 2024
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  19. Protein kinase D1 - A targetable mediator of pancreatic cancer development.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular cell research · 2024
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46 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

L Charles MurtaughDepartment of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112; email: murtaugh@genetics.utah.edu.
Matthew D Keefe
University of Utah · US

Funding

An epigenetic switch controlling pancreatic cancer susceptibilityR21CA179453 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI MURTAUGH, LEWIS C · 2013 to 2014
$370k
NCI NIH HHS R21 CA179453NCI NIH HHS R21-CA179453
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pancreatitis is caused by inflammatory injury to the exocrine pancreas, from which both humans and animal models appear to recover via regeneration of digestive enzyme-producing acinar cells. This regenerative process involves transient phases of inflammation, metaplasia, and redifferentiation, driven by cell-cell interactions between acinar cells, leukocytes, and resident fibroblasts. The NFκB signaling pathway is a critical determinant of pancreatic inflammation and metaplasia, whereas a number of developmental signals and transcription factors are devoted to promoting acinar redifferentiation after injury. Imbalances between these proinflammatory and prodifferentiation pathways contribute to chronic pancreatitis, characterized by persistent inflammation, fibrosis, and acinar dedifferentiation. Loss of acinar cell differentiation also drives pancreatic cancer initiation, providing a mechanistic link between pancreatitis and cancer risk. Unraveling the molecular bases of exocrine regeneration may identify new therapeutic targets for treatment and prevention of both of these deadly diseases.

Indexed as

Acinar CellsAnimalsCell DifferentiationDisease Models, AnimalHumansPancreas, ExocrinePancreatic NeoplasmsPancreatitisRegenerationSignal Transductionacinar cellcaeruleinceruleindifferentiationinflammationmetaplasiapancreatitis

Identifiers

PMID25386992
PMCPMC4324082
OpenAlexW2126268972

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