The pancreas is an organ deep in the abdomen of the human body. Although it is small in size, its physiological function and pathological changes are closely related to life. It mainly plays an ...

Dietary fat provides the major energy (∼50% calories) during infancy in breast milk and formulas (1). During the past decade, special attention has been given to the type of fat necessary for normal ...

The primary treatment is supplemental lipase, particularly the oral pancreatic lipase products. There are 6 products now on the commercial market in the United States, 5 of which are enteric-coated.

OBJECTIVE: Previous in vitro experiments, as well as acute assays in rat showed that the C-terminal domain (CT-domain) of porcine pancreatic lipase behaves as a potent specific noncovalent inhibitor ...

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A previously healthy 23-year-old woman presented to hospital with 2 months of intermittent dyspepsia following meals and acute-onset epigastric pain, nausea and vomiting. Based on the results of ...

Patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI) have suboptimal secretion of pancreatic digestive enzymes and experience a range of clinical symptoms related to the malabsorption of fat. In ...

The authors of the present study made an attempt to solve the problem of long-term rat pancreas adaptation to amylase formation after supplying various carbohydrates in the diet, viz. glucose, ...

Pancreatic cancer is the twelfth most common cancer worldwide. It may seem rare, but awareness is important to spot early ...

If a patient presents with nausea and epigastric pain, the cause may well be acute pancreatitis. Here is how the condition is diagnosed and treated. Pancreatitis has a unique pathologic mechanism ...