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SUBMITTER: Jabri B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5426360 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jabri Bana B Sollid Ludvig M LM
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20170401 8
Celiac disease is a human T cell-mediated autoimmune-like disorder caused by exposure to dietary gluten in genetically predisposed individuals. This review will discuss how CD4 T cell responses directed against an exogenous Ag can cause an autoreactive B cell response and participate in the licensing of intraepithelial lymphocytes to kill intestinal epithelial cells. Furthermore, this review will examine the mechanisms by which intraepithelial cytotoxic T cells mediate tissue destruction in celi ...[more]