MECOM and chronic pancreatitis: MECOM mRNA appeared at low levels in the acinar compartment of the normal human pancreas (0.24 ± 0.09 mRNA dots/cell; N = 3) but increased in samples of chronic pancreatitis (1.46 ± 0.10 mRNA dots/cell; N = 3; *p = 0.02) (Fig. 2b, c).