Examining Macrophage Influx and Vascularization in Chronic Pancreatitis

University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes; Pancreatitis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00491023

07-0075

Details and patient eligibility

About

Our aim in this study is to find out if we can locate the similar reduction in the recruitment of macrophages, remodeling of vasculature and do they correlate in the number and area of the islets in pancreas as in the mouse model.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Pancreas tissue sections from preparates from pancreatic surgery.
• Patients having chronic pancreatitis with or without diabetes