Do Vitamin D Deficiency, Gut Bacteria, and Gluten Combine in Infancy to Cause Celiac Disease?
This article appeared in the Summer 2008 edition of Celiac.com’s Scott-Free Newsletter. Celiac.com 06/16/2008 – Do vitamin D deficiency, gut bacteria A large group of single-cell microorganisms. ‘); return false”>bacteria, and timing of gluten introduction during infancy all combine to initiate the onset of celiac disease? Two recent papers raise the potential that this indeed may be the case. One paper finds that when transgenic mice expressing the human DQ8 heterodimer (a mouse model of celiac disease) are mucosally immunized with gluten co-administered with Lactobacillus A gram-positive rod-shaped bacteria that produce lactic acid especially in milk.’); return false”>Lactobacillus casei bacteria, the mice exhibit an enhanced and increased immune response to gluten compared to the administration of gluten alone.[1] A second paper finds that vitamin D receptors Chemical groups or molecules (as proteins) on the cell surface or in the cell interior that has an affinity for a specific ch
