دورية
Effects of Additional Dietary Gluten on the Small-Intestinal Mucosa of Volunteers and of Patients with Dermatitis Herpetiformis
| العنوان: | Effects of Additional Dietary Gluten on the Small-Intestinal Mucosa of Volunteers and of Patients with Dermatitis Herpetiformis |
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| المؤلفون: | Ferguson, A., Blackwell, J. N., Barnetson, R. St. C. |
| المصدر: | Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology; 1987, Vol. 22 Issue: 5 p543-549, 7p |
| مستخلص: | In an attempt to confirm the existence of latent coeliac disease - dose-related gluten-sensitive enteropathy - we have increased dietary gluten by 20 g daily for 2 weeks, in 6 healthy adults and 11 patients with dermatitis herpetiformis (DH). Six of the DH patients had entirely normal jejunal morphology on a normal diet. Jejunal biopsv specimens were taken before and at the end of the study. Measurements of crypts, villi, and crypt mitoses were made on microdissected specimens; disaccharidases were assayed, and intraepithelial lymphocyte counts performed. In one of the six adult volunteers, gluten loading produced diarrhoea and jejunal biopsy abnormalities. Five DH patients on a gluten-free diet had deterioration of biopsy pathology after the gluten challenge. Features suggestive of a latent gluten-sensitive enteropathy were found in one of the other six DH patients; he developed disaccharidase deficiencies and villus atrophy when 20 g gluten was added to his usual gluten-containing diet. This study supports previous suggestions that a gluten-sensitive enteropathy may be latent and dose-related. |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Supplemental Index |
| تدمد: | 00365521 15027708 |
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| DOI: | 10.3109/00365528708991895 |