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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 5.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Gastroenterol. 2011 Sep;27(5):444–451. doi: 10.1097/MOG.0b013e328349e346

Figure 1. Two key parallel and independent events occurring early during pancreatitis.

Figure 1

Both these events are capable of causing pancreatic damage leading to acute pancreatitis. The relative contribution of these events in acute pancreatitis is one of the central questions in the pathogenesis of pancreatic injury at present.