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Progressive Model ofChronic Pancreatitis 319
A. “At Risk”
B. “AP-RAP”
C. “Early CP” D. “Established CP” E. “End-Stage CP”
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Injury
Susceptibility
factors
(asymptomatic)
YearsDays Months Months to years Remainder of life
Figure38.1 Progressive model of chronic pancreatitis development. This model is based on the sentinel acute pancreatitis event (SAPE)
hypotheses where progression to CP begins with AP (stage B). Genetic and environmental risk/protective factors are present at all stages. Stage A is asymptomatic, with the effects of underlying disorders being adequately compensated. Stage B represents acute pancreatitis, which can be the first event (SAPE) or RAP, with SAPE sensitizing the pancreas to RAP. Stage C follows AP events where there is resolution or progression, depending on ongoing injury or stress. Stage D defines “irreversible” damage, as currently required for diagnosing CP as a disease. Note that risk/protective factors in different cell types are not surrogates of each other so the immune response (e.g., fibrosis) is not a strict surrogate of acinar cell function, islet cell function, nervous system response, or oncogenesis (e.g., failed DNA injury repair). This stage is hypothetically reversible with new therapies. Stage D is end­more radical surgical treatments. Source: Whitcomb etal. 2016[11]/with permission of Elsevier.
SAPE,
then RAP
susceptibility to
recurrence
biomarkers
biomarkers are present in a subject change over time, as seen in all progressive disorders. The stages are useful for classifying the patient’s disease state and trajectory, as well as tracking severity indicators. All etiologies of chronic pancreatitis go through progressive stages, although in individual cases acute pancreatitis may not be seen. Etiologies are also important since the likeli­hood of progressing from one stage to the next is strongly affected by etiology.
CP
Resolve
Injury or
stress
Immune dysregulation
Acinar dysfunction
Islet dysfunction
Pathologic pain
Metaplasia
Therapeutic approaches
stage where cell function fails requiring replacement therapy or
Progression
pathways
Fibrosis/sclerosis
Exocrine insufficiency
DM (T3c)
Pain syndrome
PDAC
Symptomatic and
supportive treatment
distinct from Established CP in that the features are reversible. The patient may have symptoms of one or more underlying disorders, but has not met criteria for chronic pancreatitis as a disease.
Currently, Stage C can only be diagnosed in retrospect because the biomarkers are nonspecific and progression is uncertain using traditional definitions and an imaging approach to CP diagnosis. Other names for this stage include “possible CP” and “probable CP.” In contrast, a precision medicine approach defines the essence of the
Stage A. At Risk. This stage includes all patients with risks for chronic pancreatitis who have no signs or symp­toms of diseases and who have not had an episode of acute pancreatitis. The patient may have dysfunction of some physiologic processes, but the body is able to adapt
underlying process with a probability estimate of pro­gression. Furthermore, the genetics can be used to deter­mine and, in concert with specific biomarkers, help diagnose a clinical disorder that, if left untreated, will progress to a disease state.
and compensate for the dysfunction without signs and symptoms of disease.
Stage D. Established CP. Established CP includes patients who have characteristic features of chronic pan-
Stage B. AP-
RAP. This stage includes all subjects with at
least one episode of acute pancreatitis (AP; designated as the sentinel AP event, SAPE; see below) or recurrent acute pancreatitis (RAP) with complete resolution and without irreversible damage to the ducts or parenchyma. However, this is a high- risk stage for progression to chronic pancreatitis,
creatitis that are irreversible but the gland has sufficient ductal and acinar cell function to sustain nutritional needs without the requirement of pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT). In addition, other disor­ders or diseases with features that overlap the character­istics of CP (differential diagnosis, below) should be excluded.
DM, and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).
Stage E. End- Stage CP. A patient has reached end- stage
Stage C. Early CP. This stage includes all patients with
both biomarkers of chronic pancreatitis and exclusion ofother disorders or diseases with features that overlap the characteristics of chronic pancreatitis. Early CP is
chronic pancreatitis when exocrine function is lost from a CP- associated fibroinflammatory process to the point that it requires PERT. Features of this stage may also include fibrosis, calcifications, and DM type 2 or type
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3c[12–14]. This stage is also important because it defines the end- stage disease features for individual patients since not all features are present in everyone.
Diagnosis
A diagnosis is the art or act of identifying a disease in a patient from its signs and symptoms. Diagnosing a disease or disorder involves meeting predetermined criteria.
Diagnostic Criteria
Diagnostic criteria are a list of disease features that must exist in a subject in order to diagnose the subject with a disease. These criteria are typically defined by expert opinions and established as consensus statements by various organizations or societies. They typically included signs and symptoms of the disease, biomarkers, and pathologic features. The criteria also include degrees of severity and features that distinguish the disease from other disorders or diseases with overlapping features.
Pathologic Diagnosis
A pathologic diagnosis is the diagnosis of a disease based on tissue analysis (including culturing of pathogenic organisms). Because there are overlapping features of CP and other disorders it is not possible to diagnosis CP with certainty from tissue samples. Pathology is not the gold standard for diagnosing CP[15]. A diagnosis also requires the presence of clinical and functional elements.
Syndromes
A syndrome is a descriptive group of clinical signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a par­ticular abnormality or condition. A disease can be defined as syndromes without knowledge of the etiolo­gies, pathogenic components, or mechanisms. AP, RAP, and CP are clinical syndromes.
Differential Diagnosis
upstream of a duct- obstructing mass[10]. The traditional diagnosis of CP required the underlying disorder to advance to the point that it could be nothing else. But since this stage is irreversible, only supportive treatments are available (e.g., insulin and PERT). In precision medi­cine the genetic and genomic information provides insights into the mechanism of pathogenesis and can also provide insights into the probability of the differential diagnosis[16]. This approach supports clinical decisions as further work- up and treatments can be targeted to one diagnosis or another, based on the likelihood that the diagnosis is correct and the effect of the treatment (i.e., an inexpensive and benign treatment can be started if there remains some uncertainty, whereas a more expensive and radical treatment should be delayed until the diagnosis is confirmed with a high degree of confidence).
Etiology
Etiology defines the cause or origin of something. In inflammatory diseases of the pancreas this may include the etiology of mechanism dysfunction, a disorder, a dis­ease, or a syndrome. The difference between a risk and an etiology is whether or not there are biomarkers of abnormal activity linked to the factor that defines a dis­order or disease. The TIGAR- O list (List 1) summarizes known risk/etiologies for RAP and CP[17].
Biomarkers
A biomarker is a characteristic that is objectively measured and evaluated as an indicator of normal biological pro­cesses, pathogenic processes, or pharmacological responses to a therapeutic intervention[18,19]. For CP, most bio­markers are normal biological molecules that are in the wrong place or amount[20]. They also tend to be nonspe­cific, requiring panels of biomarkers to be considered. In some cases biomarkers are more pancreas­as serum trypsin, amylase, lipase, or CA19- 9 for pancreatic cancer, although exceptions always exist.
specific, such
The differential diagnosis is a list of conditions and dis­eases that have overlapping signs and symptoms. The differential diagnoses for CP include autoimmune inflam­mation, inflammation and fibrosis arising from the islets related to long- standing diabetes mellitus, renal disease causing secondary effects on the pancreas, medications that alter the immune system (e.g., cyclosporin), age­related atrophy or fibrosis, intraductal papillary muci­nous neoplasm, acinar cell cystadenoma , the desmoplastic response to pancreatic neoplasm, and inflammation
Classification ofChronic Pancreatitis
Chronic pancreatitis can be classified by structural severity, etiology, or functional stage:
Cambridge Classification of duct imaging. The Cambridge Classification was originally developed to correlate endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERCP) images with pathologic progression [21]. The criteria was later expanded to CT images and MRCP
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Table38.1 TIGAR- O Version 2 risk/etiology classification– Short
form. The list summarizes common factors associated with RAP and CP. It is used as a “checklist” to systematically document all factors that contribute to pancreatic disorders and diseases within a patient, and therefore highlights targets for therapy. The long form is available as an open access manuscript[17].
Toxic- metabolic
Alcohol-
Smoking (if yes, record pack-
Hypercalcemia– (ionized calcium levels >12.0 3 mmol/L)
Hypertriglyceridemia
Medications (name)
Toxins, other
Metabolic, other
Idiopathic
Early onset (<35 years of age)
Late onset (>35 years of age)
Genetic
Suspected; No or limited genotyping available
Autosomal dominant (Mendelian inheritance– single gene syndrome)
Autosomal recessive (Mendelian inheritance– single gene syndrome)
Complex genetics– (non- Mendelian, complex genotypes +/– environment)
Modifier genes (list pathogenic genetic variants)
related (susceptibility and/or progression)
3–4 drinks/day
5 or more drinks/day
years)
Non-
smoker (<100cigarettes in lifetime)
Past smoker
Current smoker
Other, NOS
mg/dL or
Hypertriglyceridemic risk– (Fasting >300 mg/dL; non- fasting >500 mg/dL)
Hypertriglyceridemic acute pancreatitis, history of (>500
mg/dl in first 72 hours)
Chronic kidney disease (CKD)– (CKD Stage 5– end stage renal disease; ESRD)
Other, NOS
Diabetes mellitus (with the date of diagnosis if available)
Other, NOS
PRSS1 mutations (Hereditary pancreatitis)
CFTR, 2 severe variants in trans (cystic fibrosis)
CFTR, <2 severe variants in trans (CFTR- RD)
SPINK1, 2 pathogenic variants in trans (SPINK1-
associated familial pancreatitis)
PRSS1- PRSS1locus
CLDN2locus
Others:
Hypertriglyceridemia (list pathogenic genetic variants)
Other, NOS
Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) / Steroid­pancreatitis
AIP Type 1– IgG4-
AIP Type 2
Recurrent acute pancreatitis (RAP) and severe acute pancreatitis (SAP)
Acute pancreatitis (single episode, including date of event if available)
AP etiology– Extrapancreatic (excluding alcoholic, HTG, hypercalcemia, genetic)
Biliary pancreatitis
Post ERCP
Traumatic
Undetermined or NOS
Recurrent acute pancreatitis (number of episodes, fre­quency, and dates of events if available)
Obstructive
Pancreas divisum
Ampullary stenosis
Main duct pancreatic stones
Widespread pancreatic calcifications.
Main pancreatic duct strictures
Localized mass causing duct obstruction
related disease
responsive
images[22–25]. The 1984 Cambridge Classification sys­tem does not correlate with pancreatic function[14] or pain[26] and is therefore falling out of use as the tech­nology for other imaging modalities improve.
TIGAR- O Etiologic Classification. TIGAR- O is an acro­nym for Toxic (including alcohol, smoking, hypertriglyc­eridemia), Idiopathic, Genetic, Autoimmune, Recurrent/ Severe AP and Obstructive etiologies[17] (Table38.1). In general, autoimmune and obstructive do not fit the mechanistic classification of chronic pancreatitis but are important both for consideration in the differential diag­nosis and for treatment[1].
Functional Stage Classification. Functional classification systems are even more arbitrary than structural ones. This is because the definition of EPI is based on vague clinical signs and symptoms until the late stages, and the threshold for pancreatic insufficiency is also dependent on the metabolic and nutritional needs, the diet and intestinal anatomy and health, and adaptability. Furthermore, the tools for measuring pancreatic func­tion often do not correlate with each other and no adequate test exists [27]. Several approaches are in
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common use including the M- ANNHEIM classifica­tion[28] and PROCEED[29].
Classification ofPancreatitis Using Machine- Readable Codes
Medical care is progressing slowly as the complexity of complex conditions becomes evident and new tech­niques provide massive amounts of information that cannot be assimilated, understood, and utilized by humans in efficient and organized ways. The advances in computers allow data to be stored, organized, and trans­formed into something useable by humans. However, the premise that “smart computers” can take blocks of unor­ganized data and solve complex diseases has stalled as limits in natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) have failed to bring clarity out of chaos. And one of the many chal­lenges is that the definitions and organization of data is based on the old Western medicine concepts arising from the germ theory of disease and the scientific method of population­poorly defined syndromes as classifiers.
Challenges ofMultiple Object Identifiers andClassification Systems
The goal of basic science research is to translate findings into clinical research, and from clinical research into clinical practice. The reverse is also important, translat­ing observations in clinical practice back to clinical research to generate new hypotheses, and then test the hypotheses using basic research techniques. In the mid­dle of these translations are the terms and descriptions of data tags to be translated. Future success requires better harmonization of data terms and discipline from physi­cians and scientist to use them consistently.
Progress in medicine is intimately linked to advances in digital technology. This means that there needs to be better synchronization between advancing science, medicine, and electronic tags to specific disorders, dis­eases, biomarkers, and complications. The synchroniza­tion must also be mechanism- and disorder- based to achieve advantages of precision medicine, and existing data that is in a usable form must have the describers from different systems harmonized so that there is seam­less interoperability.
Digital taxonomy systems use object identifiers (OID) to identify objects such as a code system or a value set that represents a group of concepts. The current chal­lenges are that there are multiple classification systems and there are major overlaps of objects with different concepts and codes for the same thing in different
based case- control studies using
systems. The problem is further confounded by the fact that most terms are from modern Western medicine concepts and definitions used by physicians and scien­tists are not always used appropriately and that out­dated terms and concepts are not purged at the end of their natural life cycle. Furthermore, many codes are nonspecific, so that clarity on the subject’s disorder is obscured.
Codes, Code Systems, andValue Sets
Successful interoperability is dependent on either using common code systems for data capture or through map­ping the unique codes to an interoperable code sys­tem [30]. Code systems are a collection of concepts (ideas) with unique identifiers that are logically struc­tured. This may be highly hierarchical systems or more complex and nuanced systems (e.g., ICD- 10). The code system structure provides each concept with a code­system- specific meaning, a concept identifier (a code), and a string description (the name, and a definition of the concept meaning). Specific code systems used in electronic health records and health information tech­nology include ICD- 10- CM, CPT, SNOMED CT, RxNorm, and LOINC. Other systems used in biology include various GenBank, RefSeq etc for genetic infor­mation, the Gene Ontology knowledgebase (GO), and many more. These systems encode content and enable computer- based systems to find and utilize data without human supervision. It has been noted that the best approach for measure developers is to reduce the num­ber of mapping steps required by focusing on content that measured entities can easily capture during clinical care, where metrics that are useful in the care of the patient match those used in quality assessment and deci­sion support systems[30].
Some Limitations
One of the key code systems used in the United States is the International Classification of Disease (ICD) system. This illustrates the challenge of transitioning from tradi­tional “disease” definitions to defining disease mecha­nisms. Consider ICD- 10 codes for chronic pancreatitis in the K86 class. The primary diagnoses are limited to K86.0 (Alcohol- induced CP), K86.1 (Other CP), K86.8 Other specified diseases of pancreas (which are not bill­able codes in the United States) and K86.9 (Other speci­fied disease s of the pancreas). K86.1includes “Pancreatitis (inflammation of pancreas), chronic; exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (K86.81); Chronic pancreatitis NOS [not specified elsewhere]; Infectious chronic pancreatitis; Recurrent chronic pancreatitis; Relapsing chronic pancreatitis” without distinction between these very
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different entities. K86.9 is even worse as “synonyms” terms include “Aseptic necrosis of pancreas, Atrophy of pancreas, Baggenstoss change of pancreas[31], Calculus of pancreas, Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (also coded as K86.81), Fat necrosis of pancreas, Fibrosis of pancreas, Hemorrhage of pancreas, Mass of pancreas, Necrosis of pancreas, Pancreas – baggenstoss change, Pancreatemphraxis, Pancreatic acinar fistula, Pancreatic aseptic necrosis, Pancreatic atrophy, Pancreatic calculus, Pancreatic cirrhosis, Pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (see K86.81), Pancreatic fistula, Pancreatic hemor­rhage, Pancreatic infantilism, Pancreatic insufficiency, Pancreatic mass, Pancreatic necrosis.”
Another system is the SNOMED- CT. This is a general clinical reference system containing more that 357,000 healthcare concepts with unique meaning and logic­based definitions organized into hierarchies. In pancre­atic disease, for example, there is a “parent/child” relationship type that includes parent concept “Disorder of the pancreas (3855007)” with child concepts “Atrophy of the pancreas (88281007); Baggenstoss change of the pancreas (61221008); Bard- Pic syndrome (45019006); Calculus of pancreas (15402006); Complication of trans­planted pancreas (79369007); Congenital malformation of the pancreas (23497701); Congenital pancreatic enter­okinase deficiency (10866001); Cyst of pancreas (31258000); and Cystic fibrosis of the pancreas (235978006).” This system does not include disorders of the pancreas from most of the etiologies in the TIGAR- O list[17], and partially overlaps diagnoses in ICD- 10.
One of the keys to precision medicine is genetics. Specific human genetic variants can be coded using RefSeq identifiers (rsID), but more complex genetic vari­ants, including copy number variants and large deletions or rearrangements, are not captured by these codes. Furthermore, the interpretation of the effect of genetic variants is primarily traditional autosomal dominate or recessive disease with genetic variants within the coding region identified as pathogenic (disease- causing alone), likely pathogenic, uncertain, likely benign or benign[32]. There is no commonly accepted way to grade the effects of “risk” variants, which are only disease- associated under specific conditions and are often tied to regulatory elements of gene expression rather than changing the amino acid sequence of the gene product (i.e., for protein coding genes). ClinVar is a public archive of genetic vari­ants with free access to reports on the relationships between human genetic variations and phenotypes, with supporting evidence. But even here, the strength of evi­dence is variable, the effects of variants may be tissue- / disease- specific and risk factors, which are critical in understanding complex diseases, are seldom included or noted to have effects since the sequence reports are largely from traditional gene testing companies. Genetic
data is not well integrated into the electronic health records in formats that are easily accessible.
A Way Forward
One issue that plagues ML applications comes from lack of clean, well- structured data. Inclusion of IT- minded folks in study design/data collection may solve many issues of data cleaning, harmonization, and interpreta­tion that remain a major barrier.
A solution to the larger problem of interpreting com­plex, multi- code, multi- concept data is the use of “expert systems”[33]. An expert system is a computer program that uses available information, heuristics, and inference to suggest solutions to problems in a particular discipline following the recommendations of experts in the field. In brief, this approach takes extensive genetic data, patient demographics, health histories, biomarkers, images, etc. and integrates them using sequential framing, modeling and trajectory approaches that an expert would use. In the case of pancreatic disease, cell-
based models would be used based on an understanding of acinar cell, duct cell, islet cell, neurons and the nervous system, inflam­matory cells biology as parallel process (see Fig. 38.1, stages D and E), with cross- system integration (e.g., loss of some acinar cell function with loss of islet function). This is now feasible and may be an early example of true personalized medicine.
Conclusions
Health information technology has already linked ML and AI to assist in areas of reviewing and interpreting images (e.g., CT, MRI, pathology, colonoscopy). However, there is a lag in the development of useful clin­ical decision support tools in early diagnosis and accu­rate, mechanistic classification of complex disorders, such as pancreatic disorders and subsequent diseases. The first barrier to progress in complex disorders includes the concepts upon which many of the coding systems have been built, translation between genetics, genomics, biomarkers, systems biology, and human dis­orders that lead to chronic diseases and all their nuances. The second barrier is the proper use of terms and codes, including genetics, in the clinical arena where patient care is more important that billing codes, and where billing codes are inherently inadequate tools for disease management. A third barrier is the medical literature, where the descriptions of concepts, patient context, and complete data are inadequately coded so that studies can be seamlessly harmonized and NLP can be more useful because the authors adhere to a new HIT- enabling writing structure.
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This chapter does not present the answer to these problems and barriers. It is intended to enhance recogni­tion of these barriers by highlighting limitations of the current systems with concepts that must be integrated into new systems. In the meantime, progress can be
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Molecular Understanding ofChronic Pancreatitis
Bomi Lee1, Monique T. Barakat
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Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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, and Sohail Z. Husain
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Introduction
Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a clinically described syn­drome that is characterized by consistent cellular stress or repeated bouts of pancreatic injury that result in pan­creatic atrophy, fibrosis and duct distortion, a chronic pain syndrome (suggesting neural injury and responses), and eventually loss of both exocrine and endocrine func­tion. Depending on the proposed etiology of the disease, there can be other secondary characteristics including calcifications, duct centric inflammation with either lymphocytes or neutrophils, or primarily an obstructive phenotype. Focusing on the etiology of the injury and the subsequent pathologic response is important to direct our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of CP.
Risk Factors inChronic Pancreatitis
Although the diagnosis of CP is due to a convergence of common pathological features seen at the end- stage of the disease, there are distinct risk factors for CP (Fig.39.1). These risk factors have been described by the TIGAR­environmental factors, obstructive etiologies such as anatomical or traumatic features, and immune- mediated etiologies. The typical organ response to injury and cel­lular stress promotes recovery and regeneration of the pancreas following injury. However, with repeated injury or prolonged cellular stress, the organ response may become pathologic and drive cellular loss and fibrotic replacement of exocrine and endocrine cells. A proper
O classification [1]. They include genetic and
understanding of the molecular mechanisms of CP requires that we address both the specific etiology, with its associated genetic and epigenetic modifiers, as well as the common pathologic response mediated through both parenchymal cells of the pancreas and mesenchy­mal cells, including the immune cells and the pancreatic stellate cells[2].
The current attempts to define CP focus on a clinical description of the end histologic appearance of the pan­creas, resulting from an immune-
mediated response to stress or injury coupled to a fibrogenic wound response. Although such a definition is useful clinically, it belies the complexity of the process leading to CP. Pancreatitis is an inflammatory disorder that involves a complex immunologic cascade of events. Environmental cues shape the initiation and progression of the immune sys­tem to accelerate or limit the immune response. The immunologic response can be modulated by epigenetic and genetic factors that alter the progression of the disease. The inflammatory response is modulated by cytokines and chemokines, produced by injured acinar cells, that act as recruiting molecules for an immune rep­ertoire. There are likely multiple modifying factors and intervening steps that impact an individual patient’s clin­ical course but at some point, progression becomes simi­lar because the end result of this process is a similar histological pattern. In this chapter, we will focus on the current understanding of these two distinct stages of dis­ease development, specific etiologies and the immune­activated fibrogenic response. The first stage of CP development relates to specific risk factors, and the sec­ond stage is the organ fibrogenic response to injury.
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Etiology
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Figure39.1 Several etiologies exist for
chronic pancreatitis. Specific etiologies affect unique cell types within the pancreatic parenchyma, leading to repetitive injury.
Genetic disease/anatomic Environmental exposure Cell stress Inflammatory condition
Sentinel Acute Pancreatic Event Model
A disease model hypothesis has been proposed as a framework for understanding how different risk factors including environmental, genetic, and toxin mediated injury could impact progression toward CP. The model is the sentinel acute pancreatitis event hypothesis (or SAPE hypothesis), and it uses the TIGAR- O risk classification system, referring to Toxic- metabolic, Idiopathic, Genetic, Autoimmune, Recurrent and severe acute pancreatitis, and Obstructive [1]. In this model, risk factors impact the pancreas through alterations in stress responses by the parenchymal cells (acinar and duct cells). There are also wound healing responses within the pancreas, including the activation of the inflammatory (neutro­phils and lymphocytes) and matrix remodeling systems (macrophages and stellate cells) to allow regeneration to occur. Once the risk factors overcome the adaptive mechanisms within the pancreas, injury overtakes the protective regenerative mechanisms, and clinical acute pancreatitis ensues. Repeated bouts of acute pancreatitis can lead to an injury-
wound response cycle that over time causes loss of pancreatic cells and replacement with a fibrotic matrix that is promoted by macrophages and stellate cells. The progression of parenchymal tissue destruction and fibrosis is the pathological phenomenon of CP, graphically represented in Fig.39.2.
Epigenetics asa Modifying Factor inChronic Pancreatitis
Epigenetics is the control of gene expression that does not involve a change in the primary DNA sequence. In other words, epigenetics refers to modifications of DNA, for instance by methylation, or of chromatin structure
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through the posttranslational modification of histone proteins. The posttranslational modification of histones can alter chromatin structure or may alter the affinity transcription factors to promoter regions. The epige­nome can have significant effects on human health as well as disease susceptibility, and epigenetic alterations can be induced through environmental and prenatal exposures to toxins or stressors. Epigenetic changes can be stable and allow “memory” of past stresses to impact future exposures. Epigenetic alterations may be the result of “subclinical” stresses on the pancreas that over time allow molecular remodeling of stress responses to other stimuli. These “subclinical” stresses may alter the epige­netic pattern of genes with little or no immediate effect on gene expression; however, the gene may develop an altered response in gene expression when exposed to a new specific environmental cue. In the case of CP, there are likely situations of epigenetic change that evade clini­cal notice until the time of exposure or triggering of risk factors, which then induce the typical destructive, fibro­genic response of the disease. In experimental models of pancreatitis, chronically stressed animals (such as with ethanol exposure [3], a fatty diet [4], or genetic muta­tion[5]) have an altered response to acute injury com­pared to animals that have no chronic stress. Ethanol has been shown to affect the action of several epigenetic pro­teins including the histone acetylases CREB and CBP[6] as well as the histone deacetylases [7]. An epigenetic acetylation mechanism was implicated for controlling acute pancreatitis [8]. Delayed recovery was demon­strated in mice treated with the antiepileptic drug and histone deacetylase inhibitor valproic acid (VPA). VPA is thought to be a definite cause of pancreatitis, especially in pediatric patients[9,10]; however, the mechanism by which VPA induces pancreatitis was unknown. In fact, chronically treating experimental animals with VPA
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Figure39.2 Sentinel acute pancreatitis event (SAPE) hypothesis model. (a) Normal pancreas. If the subject is a heavy alcohol user, the acinar
cells are under metabolic and oxidative stress (indicated by asterisks) but histology remains relatively normal. Alcohol increases the risk of crossing the acute pancreatitis (AP) threshold (bold line crossing the dashed line). (b) Acute pancreatitis with pancreatic injury and infiltration of proinflammatory cells. (c) Late acute pancreatitis is dominated by anti‐inflammatory cells that limit further injury by proinflammatory cells and products, and promote healing. This includes activation of stellate cells, which produce collagen etc. (d) Recurrent acute pancreatitis (RAP): acinar cell injury or other factors that activate an acute inflammatory response (Th1) are immediately countered by an anti‐ inflammatory counterresponse (Treg) which, among other things, drives fibrosis. This vicious cycle results in both continued injury (top) and further fibrosis (bottom) leading to (e) extensive acinar cell loss and sclerosis (right) characteristic of chronic pancreatitis (CP). Both genetic factors and environmental factors play a role in this process by increasing susceptibility to acute pancreatitis, altering the severity and duration of acute pancreatitis and altering the healing processes that drive fibrosis. Source: Adapted from Whitcomb 2004 [3].