Article
The Prevalence of Primary and Secondary Lactase Deficiency in Patients with Celiac Disease
2024-11-22
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background: </h4> Celiac disease (CD) is defined as a systemic autoimmune disorder induced by gluten and other prolamins, which leads to gradual histopathological damage of the duodenum mucosa, intestinal villous atrophy, in particular. The brush border of enterocytes produces disaccharidases, including lactase. Lactase deficiency may be primary - genetically determined or secondary- due to damage to the intes...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5b20b776-15eb-597a-af06-1de475bbd06c
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202411.1763.v1
