Team:San Andres/Description

Celiac disease is a enteropathy, autoimmune affecting individuals who possess genes HLA-DQ8 or HLA-DQ2, where T cells attack the body when the gliadins and glutenins are absorbed by the small intestine, in others words, celiac patients have a permanent intolerance to gluten-containing foods. When the gluten to come into contact with the villi of the small intestine (enterocytes), the cells helper (type of reporter) detected the gluten like as a toxic substance and leave a footprint chemistry, which is followed by antibodies and lymphocytes T and B. The first are the natural killer and an army of these cells attack the infected cells, which could cause a carcinogen effect, in this case the dangerous cells are the enterocytes, causing inflammation, poor absorption, and other symptoms.