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Senate Resolution Supports March as National Autoimmune Diseases Awareness Month
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Autoimmune diseases are on the rise in the US and around the world, celiac disease has tripled in the past 10 years in Minnesota alone. 4. ...

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A new medication for celiac disease aimed to reduce intestinal damage
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A new treatment is being researched for celiac disease that will include an oral medication called Larazati. Clinical trials have just been completed and ...
Researchers take aim at digestive disorderCTV.ca

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Researchers take aim at digestive disorder
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Canadian researchers are testing a new drug for patients who suffer from the chronic digestive disorder called celiac disease, which appears to be ...

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Canadian researchers are testing a new drug for patients who suffer from a chronic digestive disorder called celiac disease, which appears to be afflicting a growing number of people. (Source: CTV Health)

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"Latent Celiac Disease" Linked with GI Symptoms and Osteoporosis
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... Kaukinen K. Gastrointestinal symptoms, quality of life and bone mineral density in mild enteropathic coeliac disease: a prospective clinical trial. ...

Conclusions: Expression and synthesis of fls485 are found in surface lining epithelia of normal human intestinal mucosa and deriving epithelial cell lines. An interdependence of enterocyte differentiation along the crypt-villus axis and fls485 chaperone activity might be possible. (Source: BMC Gastroenterology)

Promising breakthrough drug could help those with celiac disease
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A fourth clinical trial is slated for later this year, and the drug could be made available by 2012. The Canadian Celiac Association says those with celiac ...

Promising breakthrough drug could help those with celiac disease
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A fourth clinical trial is slated for later this year, and the drug could be made available by 2012. The Canadian Celiac Association says those with celiac ...

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$4 Million and Years of Hype
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Researchers have identified multiple common variants for celiac disease in a second-generation GWAS. In investigating 4533 cases of the autoimmune disease ...

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When celiac disease is diagnosed in adulthood, mucosal damage might never completely resolve, even on a gluten-free diet, according to a February 9th online report in The American Journal of Gastroenterology. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines)

AACC Teams with NCI on Proteomics Outreach
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Researchers have identified multiple common variants for celiac disease in a second-generation GWAS. In investigating 4533 cases of the autoimmune disease ...

Researchers have developed a new instrument specifically for measuring quality of life in patients with celiac disease. (Source: MedWire News - Gastroenterology)

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Conclusions Endocytic segregation of gliadin peptide AA 31–49 seems to be a constitutive process. It explains why this peptide cannot stimulate gluten-sensitive T cells. Presentation of gliadin peptides by HLA-DR proteins via late endosomes within enterocytes might induce a tolerogenic effect and constitutes a potentially promising therapeutic approach for induction of tolerance towards gliadin. (Source: Gut)

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Conclusion p31–43 accumulation in lysosomes leads to epithelial activation via the ROS–TG2 axis. TG2 works as a rheostat of ubiquitination and proteasome degradation and drives inflammation via PPAR downregulation. (Source: Gut)

Title: Health Tip: What's Lactose Intolerance?
Category: Health News
Created: 3/5/2010 10:10:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 3/5/2010

Recent research findings indicate a possible connection between virus infections, the immune system and the onset of gluten intolerance, also known as celiac disease. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)

(Academy of Finland) Recent research findings indicate a possible connection between virus infections, the immune system and the onset of gluten intolerance, also known as celiac disease. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)

Georgia Tech Launches HPC Institute
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Researchers have identified multiple common variants for celiac disease in a second-generation GWAS. In investigating 4533 cases of the autoimmune disease ...

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Introducing gluten to a baby's diet during a period of infection does not increase the risk of celiac disease, Swedish researchers report in the March issue of Pediatrics. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)