Is incidence of obesity-associated cardiovascular disease related to inflammation-sensitive plasma proteins : a population-based cohort study?
The cardiovascular risk varies widely between obese or overweight men with high and low ISPs. Relationships with ISPs contribute to, but cannot fully explain, the increased cardiovascular risk in obese men.
(1) During acute pancreatitis, pancreatic acinar cells, not pancreatic stellate cells as traditionally believed, were the naïve effector cells of collagen type I. (2) TGF-β1 played a key role in regulating collagen I expression during acute pancreatitis.