<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> ------- Continued form Part 1 SELECTED ARTICLES ON IMMUNOLOGY AND CELIAC DISEASE -- PART 2 ------- THE LANCET: If you sign up to register free with The Lancet medical journal, you will have access to all abstracts plus a number of free articles at http://www.thelancet.com/ . Here are 2 review articles available free from The Lancet website: An overview of the immune system Jacqueline Parkin, Bryony Cohen The Lancet 2001; 357:1777-1789, Jun 2, 2001 http://pdf.thelancet.com/pdfdownload? uid=llan.357.9270.editorial_and_review.16459.1&x=x.pdf (FREE article) Food allergy Scott H. Sicherer The Lancet 2002; 360:701-710, Aug 31, 2002 http://pdf.thelancet.com/pdfdownload? uid=llan.360.9334.editorial_and_review.22297.1&x=x.pdf (FREE article) ------- SCIENCE: Science magazine, http://www.sciencemag.org/ , carried these articles which made recent news promising a treatment for celiac disease. You must register, free, with the Science magazine website to be able to read read the abstracts. You can order or download these articles from sciencemag.org for $10 each. Gluten and the Gut--Lessons for Immune Regulation Detlef Schuppan and Eckhart G. Hahn Science 2002; 297:2218-2220, Sep 27, 2002 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/297/5590/2218 Structural Basis for Gluten Intolerance in Celiac Sprue Lu Shan, Øyvind Molberg, Isabelle Parrot, Felix Hausch, Ferda Filiz, Gary M. Gray, Ludvig M. Sollid, and Chaitan Khosla Science 2002; 297:2275-2279, Sep 27, 2002 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/297/5590/2275 ------- NATURE: Nature magazine, http://www.nature.com/ , publishes numerous magazines covering a variety of scientific, medical, and technical disciplines. Free registration at nature.com allows you access to abstracts plus a number of free articles and commentary from all of these magazines. In particular, the following articles from Nature Medicine and Nature Reviews Immunology are of interest. They can be purchased online from Nature for $25 each. ------- http://www.nature.com/nm/ In vivo antigen challenge in celiac disease identifies a single transglutaminase-modified peptide as the dominant A-gliadin T-cell epitope Robert P. Anderson, Pilar Degano, Andrew J. Godkin, Derek P. Jewell, Adrian V.S. Hill Nature Medicine 2000; 6:337-342, Mar 1, 2000 http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf? file=/nm/journal/v6/n3/abs/nm0300_337.html ------- http://www.nature.com/nri/ Coeliac disease: Dissecting a complex inflammatory disorder Ludvig M. Sollid Nature Reviews Immunology 2002; 2:647-655, Sep 1,2002 (FREE at: http://www.immunology.no/cd/Sollid_NRI.pdf ) http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf? file=/nri/journal/v2/n9/abs/nri885_fs.html Epitope spreading in immune-mediated diseases: Implications for immunotherapy Carol L. Vanderlugt, Stephen D. Miller Nature Reviews Immunology 2002; 2:85-95, Feb 1, 2002 http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf? file=/nri/journal/v2/n2/abs/nri724_fs.html ------- GASTROENTEROLOGY: Gastroenterology, http://www.gastrojournal.org/ , requires no registration. Abstracts and a number of articles and editorials are free. Here are some recent articles of interest. Because the URL addresses are so long, instead of giving you the URL, it's best if you just go to gastrojournal.org and search the archives or past issues for the articles. Articles can be obtained from gastrojournal.org for $25 each. Celiac lesion T cells recognize epitopes that cluster in regions of gliadins rich in proline residues Helene Arentz-Hansen, Stephen N. Mcadam, Øyvind Molberg, Burkhard Fleckenstein, Knut E. A. Lundin, Thomas J. D. Jørgensen, Günther Jung, Peter Roepstorff, Ludvig M. Sollid Gastroenterology 2002; 123:803-809, September 2002 Celiac disease pathogenesis: The plot thickens Martin F. Kagnoff Gastroenterology 2002; 123:939-943, September 2002 (FREE article) The gluten response in children with celiac disease is directed toward multiple gliadin and glutenin peptides Willemijn Vader, Yvonne Kooy, Peter van Veelen, Arnoud de Ru, Diana Harris, Willemien Benckhuijsen, Salvador Peña, Luisa Mearin, Jan Wouter Drijfhout, Frits Koning Gastroenterology 2002; 122:1729-1737, June 2002 (FREE at: http://www.med.vu.nl/immunogenetics/publications/gastro01.pdf ) Spreading and focusing of gluten epitopes in celiac disease Susi Martucci, Gino Roberto Corazza Gastroenterology 2002; 122:2072-2075, June 2002 (FREE article) ------- MISCELLANEOUS: Here are a few additional articles and websites I found interesting: Review: Autoantibody profiling for the study and treatment of autoimmune disease Wolfgang Hueber, Paul J Utz, Lawrence Steinman and William H Robinson Arthritis Res 2002, 4, May 7, 2002 http://www.stanford.edu/group/utzlab/HueberReview.pdf REPORT ON THE WORKSHOP "TRANSGLUTAMINASE, PROTEIN CROSSLINKING AND COELIAC DISEASE" Tampere, Finland, Sept. 14-15, 2001 http://crisceb.unina2.it/what/Meetings/Tampere_Report.html VACCINES FOR IMMUNOLOGIC DISEASES: Accelerated Development of Vaccines Marshall Plaut, Howard B. Dickler, and Daniel Rotrosen Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland http://www.aarda.org/research14.html American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association http://www.aarda.org Apoptosis and Autoimmunity Research project of Dr. Jos Raats: Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~jraats/apop.html (Note: "Apoptosis" is "programmed" cell death, where the "program" is coded in the DNA strand.) *Support summarization of posts, reply to the SENDER not the CELIAC List*