Pancreatic acinar cells
Digestive enzyme synthesis
Also searched as Digestive enzyme synthesis.
You want them intact: acinar injury is where pancreatitis starts, and the islets sit inside the tissue it destroys.
In depth
The cells that make digestive enzymes — about 85% of the pancreas by mass. Everyone thinks of the pancreas as the insulin organ, but the insulin cells are a few percent of it, scattered through this.
What drives it
Fullness hormone (CCK) increases it.
CCK acts on acinar CCK-A receptors to trigger zymogen granule secretion; supramaximal CCK causes premature intracellular zymogen activation. PMID 40563241
What it drives
It reduces Pancreatic inflammation.
Where it starts. Verbatim: 'premature activation of trypsin in the pancreas leads to acinar cell injury accompanied by necrosis' and 'It is generally accepted that chronic pancreatitis derives from repeated episodes of acute pancreatitis' (PMC2838384). The mechanism in one line: 'premature activation of trypsinogen to trypsin -> intrapancreatic activation of digestive enzymes -> autodigestion of pancreatic tissue -> inflammatory reaction'. The link runs inversely: acinar integrity up means pancreatitis down. PMC2838384
Blends that modulate it
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