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(If active celiacs
>DON'T have achlorhydria, how is it that the peptides reach the gut intact
>enough to be antigenic?).
 
This comes about because in all people digestion of proteins in the stomach
is incomplete so that peptides and some intact proteins pass into the small
intestine where digestion continues by pancreatic enzymes and enzymes
associated with the brush border of the intestinal epithelium.
 
Don Kasarda, Albany, CA