MIF and alkaline phosphatase measurement: Small molecular MIF inhibitors, anti-MIF antibodies, and genetic ablation of MIF have all been tested and show protective effects in experimental AP (Sakai et al., 2003; Matsuda et al., 2006; Guo et al., 2018; Li et al., 2019; Zhu et al., 2020) and PDAC (Winner et al., 2007; Denz et al., 2010; Funamizu et al., 2013; Tan et al., 2014; Costa-Silva et al., 2015; Guo et al., 2016; Yang et al., 2016; Wang et al., 2018; Suresh et al., 2019) models.