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Reg-II is an exocrine pancreas injury-response product that is up-regulated by keratin absence or mutation.
Molecular biology of the cell - 1 Dec 2007
Zhong Bihui, Strnad Pavel, Toivola Diana M, Tao Guo-Zhong, Ji Xuhuai, Greenberg Harry B, Omary M Bishr
Abstract excerpt
The major keratins in the pancreas and liver are keratins 8 and 18 (K8/K18), but their function seemingly differs in that liver K8/K18 are essential cytoprotective proteins, whereas pancreatic K8/K18 are dispensable. This functional dichotomy raises the hypothesis that K8-null pancreata may undergo compensatory cytoprotective gene expression. We tested this hypothesis by comparing the gene expression profile in...
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