OBJECTIVE To assess the value of anaplastic lymphoma kinase for the diagnosis of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumours using a comprehensive meta-analysis. METHODS We searched the related literature using electronic databases and manual searches. Approximately 454 cases from several countries were included in this analysis. The quality of studies included was assessed by QUADAS (quality assess...

BACKGROUND Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a necroinflammatory process resulting in extensive pancreatic fibrosis. Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), a hematopoietic stem cell mobilizer, has been shown to exert an anti-fibrotic effect partly through the enrichment of bone marrow (BM) cells in fibrotic organ. We aimed to test the effect of G-CSF on fibrosis in a mouse model of CP. MET...