2012
Risk Factors Associated With Biliary Pancreatitis in Children
H. M, Bai HX, Park AJ, Latif SU, Mistry PK, Pashankar D, Northrup VS, Bhandari V, Husain SZ. Risk Factors Associated With Biliary Pancreatitis in Children. Journal Of Pediatric Gastroenterology And Nutrition 2012, 54: 651-656. PMID: 22002481, PMCID: PMC3626418, DOI: 10.1097/mpg.0b013e31823a897d.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBiliary pancreatitisRisk factorsIndependent predictorsAspartate aminotransferaseTertiary care hospitalManagement of childrenMultiple logistic regressionMedian serum amylaseCare hospitalProspective studyAcute pancreatitisSerum amylaseHispanic ethnicityPancreatitisTimes higher probabilityGallstonesGallstone casesLogistic regressionOlder childrenHispanic childrenObesityChildrenOptimal evaluationAminotransferaseBlack children
2009
Protease activation during in vivo pancreatitis is dependent on calcineurin activation
Shah AU, Sarwar A, Orabi AI, Gautam S, Grant WM, Park AJ, Shah AU, Liu J, Mistry PK, Jain D, Husain SZ. Protease activation during in vivo pancreatitis is dependent on calcineurin activation. AJP Gastrointestinal And Liver Physiology 2009, 297: g967-g973. PMID: 20501444, PMCID: PMC2777459, DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00181.2009.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcinar cellsProtease activationDependent phosphatase calcineurinHourly intraperitoneal injectionsCourse of pancreatitisAcinar cell vacuolizationCholecystokinin analogue caeruleinPhosphatase calcineurinHistological severityMyeloperoxidase activityPancreatic acinar cellsAcute pancreatitisIL-6Inhibitor FK506Pancreatic edemaSerum amylaseIntraperitoneal injectionPancreatitis inductionPancreatitis severityCalcineurin activationPancreatitisPathological riseCell vacuolizationDigestive proenzymesPremature activation