Special gut cells may help tame food allergies

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Special gut cells may help tame food allergies

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http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/03/2 ... z1wAxem6Zt
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I read the abstract for the original research article a few months ago (it was published in mid-March) and decided that was probably an irrelevant discovery, but I'll bet that someone will try to capitalize on it to develop a drug that might utilize that function of the goblet cells to promote improved tolerance. That may prove to be a tough project to bring to fruition, though.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22422267

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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.
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yeah I am on a celiac email list and every month they send a few articles...
Another one was along the lines of 'you know a person has celiac when...' and it made me so mad! It wasn't even slightly funny to me.
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