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ReviewDigestive diseases and sciences2017

Novel and Experimental Therapies in Chronic Pancreatitis.

Soumya Jagannath, Pramod Kumar Garg

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Review in Digestive diseases and sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Soumya JagannathDepartment of Gastroenterology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Pramod Kumar GargDepartment of Gastroenterology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. pkgarg@aiims.ac.in.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a progressive inflammatory disease of the pancreas. The currently available treatment of CP is aimed at controlling symptoms and managing complications. Unfortunately, no specific treatment is available to halt the progression of the disease process because the pathophysiological perturbations in CP are not well understood. In this review, we discuss various therapeutic targets and investigational agents acting on these targets. Among these, therapies modulating immune cells and those acting on pancreatic stellate cells appear promising and may translate into clinical benefit in near future. However, these experimental therapies are mostly in animal models and they do not recapitulate all aspects of human disease. Still they may be beneficial in developing effective therapeutic modalities to curb inflammation in chronic pancreatitis.

Indexed as

AnimalsDisease Models, AnimalGene Expression RegulationHumansImmunotherapyPancreatic Stellate CellsPancreatitis, ChronicChronic pancreatitisExperimental therapyImmune systemPancreatic stellate cells

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PMID28551708
OpenAlexW2619082789

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