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Carboxylester lipase gene polymorphism as a risk of alcohol-induced pancreatitis.
Pancreas - 1 May 2005
Miyasaka Kyoko, Ohta Minoru, Takano Saeko, Hayashi Hiroshi, Higuchi Susumu, Maruyama Katsuya, Tando Yusuke, Nakamura Teruo, Takata Yutaka, Funakoshi Akihiro
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Alcohol abuse causes pancreatic damage in humans. However, only 5% of alcoholic patients have a clinical manifestation of pancreatitis, and the genetic predisposition of alcohol-associated pancreatitis remains elusive. Nonoxidative metabolites of ethanol, fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEEs), might play an important role in pancreatic damage. Carboxylester lipase (CEL) has been known to catalyze FAEE...
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