Interleukin-6 in inflammatory and malignant diseases of the pancreas

Marina Lesina, Sonja Maria Wörmann, Patrick Neuhöfer, Liang Song, Hana Algül

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Abstract

Interleukin-6 is an important pro-inflammatory cytokine strongly linked to the most burdened exocrine pancreatic diseases including acute pancreatitis, chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. However, its role in all these diseases is versatile and not completely defined. Several studies provided accumulating evidence that IL-6 is mainly involved in the JAK/STAT pathway activation promoting acute and chronic pancreatitis disease aggravation as well as pancreatic cancer initiation and progression. This review will focus on recent studies illustrating the role of IL-6 in acute and chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic oncogenesis. Further, a short overview of indicated disease pathologies will be given and the impact of IL-6 in JAK/STAT pathway, persistent STAT3 activation and cancer immunotherapy will be discussed.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)80-87
Seitenumfang8
FachzeitschriftSeminars in Immunology
Jahrgang26
Ausgabenummer1
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Feb. 2014
Extern publiziertJa

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