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Grain prolamins play a decisive role in the aetiology of coeliac disease. What is the special make-up of these prolamins to interfere with the intestinal lining in people with a genetic constitution that makes them sensitive to these molecules? This question implies the facts that the intestine of a normal individual does not react to the same prolamins and that no other proteins cause a similar damage to the intestinal wall in gluten-sensitive and in non-sensitive people.
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Hekkens, W.T.J.M., van Twist-de Graaf, M. (1990). Grain prolamins; why immunogenic, how toxic?. In: Hadziselimovic, F., Herzog, B., Bürgin-Wolff, A. (eds) Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Coeliac Disease in Children. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1850-4_14
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