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Celiac disease: an immunological jigsaw.
Immunity - 29 Jun 2012
Meresse Bertrand, Malamut Georgia, Cerf-Bensussan Nadine
Abstract excerpt
Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic enteropathy induced by dietary gluten in genetically predisposed people. The keystone of CD pathogenesis is an adaptive immune response orchestrated by the interplay between gluten and MHC class II HLA-DQ2 and DQ8 molecules. Yet, other factors that impair immunoregulatory mechanisms and/or activate the large population of intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes (IEL) are...
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