Romanian Journal of Internal Medicine (Jun 2017)

The association between chronic pancreatitis and the iNOS-2087A>G polymorphism

  • Pădureanu Vlad,
  • Enescu Anca Ştefania,
  • Siloşi Isabela,
  • Forţofoiu Maria,
  • Enescu Aurelia,
  • Bogdan Maria,
  • Forţofoiu Mircea Cătălin,
  • Dumitrescu Amelia Genunche,
  • Tudoraşcu Diana Rodica,
  • Mita Adrian,
  • Streata Ioana,
  • Ioana Mihai,
  • Petrescu Florin,
  • Săftoiu Adrian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/rjim-2017-0009
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 55, no. 2
pp. 89 – 95

Abstract

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Introduction. Chronic pancreatitis is morphologically characterized by ductal dysplasia, breeding grounds for the proliferation of the ductal cells, the degenerative changes in pancreatic acinar cells and fibrosis, and it is defined on the basis of the clinical, morphological and functional criteria.

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