Coeliac disease affects 2 million Americans and causes the immune system to attack the gut after gluten consumption. Often ...

When someone with celiac disease eats gluten, their immune system damages the small intestine’s lining, preventing nutrient absorption. Symptoms include bloating, diarrhea, fatigue, joint pain ...

Here's what the most common symptoms of celiac disease are, what causes it and how it is usually treated.

It affects around one in 70 Australians, but only 20 per cent of this group are diagnosed. If you have coeliac disease, eating foods that contain gluten can damage your villi, structures in the small ...

Coeliac disease can disrupt your body’s absorption of nutrients such as iron, vitamin B12, and folate due to damage to the small intestine. So despite a lack of symptoms, doctors may flag these ...

One study found some people with coeliac disease experienced damage to their small intestine with as little as 10 milligrams of gluten per day. For context, one slice of bread contains 2.5 grams ...

Dr Florian Jaeckle, also from the Department of Pathology, and a Research Fellow at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, said: “This is the first time AI has been shown to diagnose as accurately as an ...

Coeliac disease is an autoimmune condition which occurs due to genetic and environmental factors. Gluten – found in wheat, barley and rye – causes the immune system to damage the small intestine.

In cases of active coeliac disease, researchers discovered that the enzyme tissue transglutaminase 2 (tTG2) ... leading to inflammation and small intestine villous atrophy.

Doctors mainly test for celiac disease using blood tests and small intestine biopsies. Testing for celiac disease aims to identify certain celiac-linked antibodies. These are proteins the immune ...

In the active-disease biopsies, IL-7 co-localized with mesenchymal cells expressing TAGLN, which is a marker widely expressed by intestinal fibroblasts and smooth muscle cells.