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  • Title: [A cytokine status in chronic alcoholic and biliary pancreatitis].
    Author: Vinokurova LV, Zhivaeva NS, Tsaregorodtseva TM, Serova TI.
    Journal: Ter Arkh; 2006; 78(2):57-60. PubMed ID: 16613100.
    Abstract:
    AIM: To determine characteristics of a cytokine status in chronic pancreatitis (CP) depending on etiological factor, stage of the disease, complications, therapy. Material and methods. 72 patients had chronic alcoholic pancreatitis (CAP), 38 patients--chronic biliary pancreatitis (CBP). Control group consisted of 20 healthy subjects. RESULTS: At early stages and height of CAP exacerbation, concentrations of IL-1beta, IL-6, IL-8, TNF-gamma and TNFalpha were elevated (951.1 +/- 104.2 pg/ml; 172.8 +/- 24.3 pg/ml; 432.6 +/- 68.5 pg/ml; 823.3 +/- 97.5 pg/ml; 158.7 +/- 19.6 pg/ml, respectively). Regenerative processes in CP were accompanied with IL-4 elevation to 614.9 +/- 64.6 pg/ml. In CAP without complications and with them the levels of cytokines differed significantly. The level of TGF-beta1 stimulating development of fibrosis was in CAP patients 627.8 +/- 92.2 pg/ml, in CAP patients with complications--796.8 +/- 102.5, in the controls--40.2 +/- 4.6 pg/ml (p < 0.05). In early stages of CBP exacerbation, IL-1beta rose to 527.2 +/- 62.7 pg/ml, IL-6--to 80.9 +/- 11.4 pg/ml, IL-8--to 290.4 +/- 46.8 pg/ml, INF-gamma to 853.3 +/- 91.6 pg/ml; TNF-alpha--to 79.7 +/- 8.3 pg/ml, TGF-beta1--534.1 +/- 78.4 pg/ml. With attenuation of acute syndromes and development ofregeneration, levels of IL-4 went up (226.7 +/- 32.4 pg/ml). CONCLUSION: CP is accompanied by increase in cytokine contents depending on the etiological factor, variants of course, stage, presence of complications.
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