Eight‐week‐old female C57BL/6 mice were intraperitoneally injected with 50 mg/kg cerulean (Sigma‐Aldrich) dissolved in saline to induce severe acute pancreatitis. Untreated mice were intraperitoneally injected with the same volumes of saline as the control. Pancreatic samples were collected from mice 12 h after a single injection of cerulean and cut into two parts. One was stored at −80°C and the other was fixed in 10% formaldehyde for histological analysis.
After pretreated with AT7519 (15 mg/kg) or dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO; Sigma‐Aldrich), mice were intraperitoneally injected with 50 mg/kg cerulean. Then, mice were killed 12 h after cerulean injection.