This got a fair bit of coverage in aus.
Highlight, you don't have to eat gluten for the test!!, Yeah for progress....
URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 154219.htm
Interesting development...
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Interesting development...
Gabes Ryan
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Well, the article doesn't give specific details, just that it detects a T cell response to a gluten challenge. Therefore, it apparently is not a celiac-specific test, or an anything-specific test. It's simply a food-sensitivity test.
It appears to me (based on the sparse in formation in the article) that the test only focuses on a T cell response, and it ignores any other cytokines that might be released during the challenge. Therefore such a general test should work just as well for detecting any other food antigens, since there's probably not a significant difference in a T cell response to gluten, and a T cell response to casein, or soy, or egg, or whatever.
I'm pretty sure that the researchers don't even realize that the test is not specific to celiac disease at this point, but surely that will dawn on them eventually.
IMO, though, it's almost impossible to be sensitive to other foods, without first being sensitive to gluten. Therefore, gluten is always the one to focus on when searching for food sensitivities in general (again, IMO). Once gluten sensitivity is established for a patient, then other food sensitivities should be ruled out (or verified).
Tex
It appears to me (based on the sparse in formation in the article) that the test only focuses on a T cell response, and it ignores any other cytokines that might be released during the challenge. Therefore such a general test should work just as well for detecting any other food antigens, since there's probably not a significant difference in a T cell response to gluten, and a T cell response to casein, or soy, or egg, or whatever.
I'm pretty sure that the researchers don't even realize that the test is not specific to celiac disease at this point, but surely that will dawn on them eventually.IMO, though, it's almost impossible to be sensitive to other foods, without first being sensitive to gluten. Therefore, gluten is always the one to focus on when searching for food sensitivities in general (again, IMO). Once gluten sensitivity is established for a patient, then other food sensitivities should be ruled out (or verified).
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.