Celiac disease.

Abstract excerpt

Clinically, celiac disease has always been regarded as a wasting, malabsorptive disorder due to disease of the small intestinal mucosa. It has been difficult for clinicians to recognize that this condition is primarily due to sensitization of mesenteric T lymphocytes to wheat protein (gluten) in genetically predisposed (DQ2+) individuals. On contact with dietary-derived gluten in the upper intestine, these...

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