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Resistance to Celiac Disease in Humanized HLA-DR3-DQ2-Transgenic Mice Expressing Specific Anti-Gliadin CD4+ T Cells
1 Jun 2009
Abstract excerpt
Celiac disease is a chronic inflammatory enteropathy caused by cellular immunity to dietary gluten. More than 90% of patients carry HLA-DQ2 encoded by HLA-DQA1*05 and DQB1*02, and gluten-specific CD4(+) T cells from intestinal biopsies of these patients are HLA-DQ2-restricted, produce Th1 cytokines and preferentially recognize gluten peptides deamidated by tissue transglutaminase. We generated mice lacking murine...
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