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Innate and adaptive immunity: the yin and yang of celiac disease.

Jabri B, Kasarda DD, Green PH

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

Celiac disease is a multigenetic complex inflammatory disorder with an autoimmune component, induced by gluten, a protein found in wheat. It is a unique human disease model to dissect the innate and adaptive immune mechanisms underlying T-cell-mediated tissue destruction and the development of T-cell lymphoma in conditions of chronic T-cell activation.

Published 28 July 2005 in Immunol Rev, 206: 219-31.
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