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ArticleJournal of clinical immunology2013

Colonic involvement in celiac disease and possible implications of the sigmoid mucosa organ culture in its diagnosis.

Antonio Picarelli, Marco Di Tola, Raffaele Borghini, Claudia Isonne, Annarita Saponara, Mariacatia Marino, Rossella Casale, Antonio Tiberti, Roberta Pica, Giuseppe Donato and 2 more

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Article in Journal of clinical immunology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Colonic neoplasia and celiac disease: A systematic review.World journal of gastroenterology · 2025
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12 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Antonio PicarelliDepartment of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, Sapienza University - Polyclinic Umberto I, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00161, Rome, Italy, antonio.picarelli@uniroma1.it.
Marco Di Tola
Raffaele Borghini
Claudia Isonne
Annarita Saponara
Mariacatia Marino
Rossella Casale
Antonio Tiberti
Roberta Pica
Giuseppe Donato
Giuseppe Frieri
Enrico Corazziari
Policlinico Umberto I · ITOspedale Sandro Pertini · ITSapienza University of Rome · ITUniversity of L'Aquila · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeCeliac disease (CD), a systemic autoimmune disorder that typically involves duodenal mucosa, can also affect other intestinal areas. Duodenal and oral mucosa organ culture has already been demonstrated as a reliable procedure to identify CD. The present study investigated gluten-dependent immunological activation of colonic mucosa in CD patients. We took advantage of the numerous colonoscopies performed for various clinical conditions or only for defensive medicine.

methodsForty-four patients with gastrointestinal symptoms or in need of colorectal cancer screening were divided into patients with serum anti-endomysium (EMA) and anti-tissue transglutaminase (anti-tTG) antibody positive results (Group A), patients with serum antibody negative results (Group B), and patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) (Group C). The autoantibodies EMA and anti-tTG were evaluated in supernatants of cultured sigmoid and duodenal biopsies from patients on a gluten-containing diet.

resultsIn Group A, EMA and anti-tTG resulted positive in all duodenal culture supernatants. In sigmoid culture supernatants, EMA and anti-tTG were detected in 12/16 (75 %) and 13/16 (81.3 %) patients, respectively. In Group B, none of the 17 patients showed EMA and anti-tTG positive results in both duodenal and sigmoid cultures. In Group C, all 11 patients presented EMA negative results in sigmoid cultures. Only in one patient, anti-tTG were detectable in the sigmoid culture supernatant, as expected in cases of IBD.

conclusionsData confirm that the gluten-dependent immunological activation affects more intestinal tracts with different degrees of involvement, suggesting that the organ culture of colonic biopsies could represent a new tool to opportunistically detect CD.

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AdultAutoantibodiesCeliac DiseaseCells, CulturedColonoscopyColon, SigmoidConnective TissueFemaleGlutensHumansInflammatory Bowel DiseasesMaleMiddle AgedMucous MembraneOrgan Culture TechniquesSerologic TestsAutoantibodiesGlutensTransglutaminases

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