<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> I read through the "Trends from Tampere" published by the the Tri-County Celiac Sprue Support Group. Thank you so much for providing this information on the "Seventh International Symposium on Coeliac Disease" which was held in Tampere, Finland. I found most interesting the comments on the Oats study in Italy ("Oats Prolamines In Vitro Activate Intestinal Cell-Mediated Immunity in Coeliac Disease" N Leone, G Mazzarella, et al) which mentioned taking biopsy samples from *treated* celiacs and culturing them for 24 hours alone, or in the presence of wheat gliadin or oat prolamines. There was an increase in lymphocytes in the samples which were cultured in the gliadin and the prolamines. The study concluded "that these results suggest that oat prolamines [and wheat gliadin] are able to activate a T-cell medicated mucosal immune systems response in the jejunum of celiacs" who had already been on gluten free diet. This being the case, I would assume that *someday*, people on a gluten free diet who have not been diagnosed (because of starting the diet prior to having the biopsy), might be able to obtain a diagnosis of celiac disease by having such tests done on their biopsy samples to determine if there is such a T-cell response. Does anyone know if there are any studies that show that such an increase in lymphocytes does not occur in people without celiac? Also, does anyone know if there is a way to get a copy of this study? Was anything published yet? How can a get a hold of it? Thanks. --- Abigail St Paul, Minnesota "To be nobody but myself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make me everybody else, is to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting." e e cummings