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Celiac disease: how complicated can it get?
Immunogenetics - 1 Oct 2010
Tjon Jennifer May-Ling, van Bergen Jeroen, Koning Frits
Abstract excerpt
In the small intestine of celiac disease patients, dietary wheat gluten and similar proteins in barley and rye trigger an inflammatory response. While strict adherence to a gluten-free diet induces full recovery in most patients, a small percentage of patients fail to recover. In a subset of these refractory celiac disease patients, an (aberrant) oligoclonal intraepithelial lymphocyte population develops into...
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