Parimal Chowdhury’s work on smoking related pancreatic disorders

Figure 2 Pancreatic acinar cell model. A pancreatic acinar cell model showing the multiple signal transduction pathways is proposed that will replicate signal transduction pathways of a normal acinar cell described previously by other investigators[14-16]. Known agonists and antagonists acting directly on acinar cell surface receptors (pathway 1), ion channels (pathway 2), and intracellular receptors (pathway 3) are utilized to delineate the mechanism.