Alcohol and the pancreas

This article represents the proceedings of a workshop at the 2000 ISBRA Mee ting in Yokohama, Japan. The presentations were (1) Phenotypic alteration o f myofibroblast during ethanol-induced pancreatic injury: its relation to b FGF, by Masahiko Nakamura, Kanji Tsuchimoto, and Hiromasa Ishii; (2) Activa tion of pancreatic stellate: cells in pancreatic fibrosis, by Paul S. Haber , Gregory W. Keogh, Minoti V. Apte, Corey S. Moran, Nancy L. Stewart, Darre ll H.G. Crawford, Romano C. Pirola, Geoffrey W. McCaughan, Grant A. Ramm, a nd Jeremy S. Wilson; (3) Pancreatic blood flow and pancreatic enzyme secret ion on acute ethanol infusion in anesthetized RAT, by H. Nishino, M. Kohno, R. Aizawa, and N. Tajima; (4) Genotype difference of alcohol-metabolizing enzymes in relation to chronic alcoholic pancreatitis between the alcoholic in the National Institute on Alcoholism and patients in other general hosp itals in Japan, by K. Maruyama, II. Takahashi, S. Matsushita, K. Okuyama, A . Yokoyama, Y. Nakamura, K. Shirakura, and H. Ishii; and (5) Alcohol consum ption and incidence of type 2 diabetes, by Katherine M. Conigrave, B. Frank Hu, Carlos A. Camargo Jr, Meir J. Stampfer, Waiter C. Willett, and Eric B. Rimm.