Sept. 27, 2002 — A report in the Sept. 27 issue of Science identifies the culprit inducing celiac sprue as a 33-mer peptide of gluten, and a bacterial prolyl endopeptidase which can metabolize this ...

We eat to live, grow and remain healthy. What happens when the nutrition from the food we eat, is not absorbed in the body? The purpose of food itself is defeated and the condition, not known to many, ...

Celiac sprue (CS) is a gluten-sensitive enteropathy with many autoimmune features. CS involves multiple organs through immune and nonimmune processes, and is frequently associated with other ...

Q. Can you tell me about celiac sprue? I was diagnosed with this bowel disease after four years of tests. I was told that the lining of my stomach is being eaten away and nothing can be done. What can ...

Seven years ago, during an endoscopy for what was thought to be acid reflux, the doctor looked at the screen and exclaimed "Oh! Celiac sprue!" "I'm awake. I'm not sedated or anything," continued the ...

Mrs. Burrows was worried about her granddaughter. “She hadn’t been well for about a year. We always knew she had a sensitive stomach, but then she started having diarrhea and nausea every day,” she ...

Celiac Sprue is an autoimmune disease of the small intestine induced by exposure to dietary gluten, but the molecular trigger for gluten toxicity remains unclear. In September 27 Science, Lu Shan and ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I have several symptoms of gluten intolerance. I’ve read that there are tests to confirm celiac disease. Besides a blood test, one test is a biopsy of tissue taken from the small ...

Like trans fats, refined sugar and carbs, there is a new dietary -œbad kid- on the block – and its name is gluten. Lurking in a vast array of food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic items, gluten is ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I had a duodenum biopsy to rule out sprue. The biopsy results were that my duodenal mucosa showed: “… mucosal inflammation with marked flattening of the mucosa. Micro­scopic ...