Protective effects of urocortin 2 against caerulein-induced acute pancreatitis.

Because little is known about the role of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) agonists in regulating responses in pancreatitis, we evaluated the effects of urocortin 2 (UCN2) and stressin1 in caerulein-induced acute pancreatitis (AP) model in rats. Male rats were pretreated with UCN2 or stressin1 f...

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Main Authors: Jingzhen Yuan, Burcu Hasdemir, Tanya Tan, Chintan Chheda, Jean Rivier, Stephen J Pandol, Aditi Bhargava
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217065