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    Mechanisms of disease: immunopathogenesis of celiac disease.

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    Department of Pathology, Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA. bjabri@bsd.uchicago.edu

    Abstract

    Celiac disease is a genetic inflammatory disorder with autoimmune components that is induced by the ingestion of dietary gluten. Refractory sprue and enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma are rare but distinctive complications of the disease. Although the importance of the adaptive immune response to gluten has been well established, observations now also point towards a central role for the gluten-induced innate stress response in the pathogenesis of celiac disease and its malignant complications.

    PMID:
    16951668
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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