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Gluten-Free Diet Induces Rapid Changes in Phenotype and Survival Properties of Gluten-Specific T Cells in Celiac Disease.
Gastroenterology - 1 Jul 2024
Risnes Louise F, Reims Henrik M, Doyle Ronan M, Qiao Shuo-Wang, Sollid Ludvig M, Lundin Knut E A, Christophersen Asbjørn
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: The treatment of celiac disease (CeD) with gluten-free diet (GFD) normalizes gut inflammation and disease-specific antibodies. CeD patients have HLA-restricted, gluten-specific T cells persisting in the blood and gut even after decades of GFD, which are reactivated and disease driving upon gluten exposure. Our aim was to examine the transition of activated gluten-specific T cells into a pool of...
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