Environmental Stressors and the Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) in Exocrine Pancreatic Function
The exocrine pancreas has the greatest synthetic capacity of any mammalian organ and as such is challenged with synthesis, processing and transporting a large load of digestive enzymes. Here we discuss how both mutations in the digestive enzymes and environmental factors impacting the pancreas such...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2011-03-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Physiology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2011.00008/full |