CCL2 and pancreatitis: Most veterinary studies have shown the utility of measuring serum MCP-1 as an inflammatory marker in many inflammatory diseases, such as primary immune-mediated hemolytic anemia, pemphigus foliaceus, and suspected pancreatitis [23, 32, 35], neoplastic diseases, such as lymphoma, hemangiosarcoma, and urothelial carcinoma [24, 36, 39], and infectious diseases, such as babesiosis due to Babesia canis and Babesia rossi, and coccidiomycosis [30, 31, 34].