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Article: Finger-Stick Rapid Test Kit for Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance Now Available From US-Based York Nutritional Laboratories.
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- November 1, 2005
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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- York Nutritional Laboratories has introduced to the US a simple, unique and revolutionary finger-stick rapid test kit designed to detect the antibodies associated with Celiac Disease and gluten intolerance.
Celiac Disease (CD) is a gluten intolerance enteropathy caused by a permanent intolerance to gluten and specifically to its protein fragment known as gliadin. The ingestion of this protein in people with genetic predisposition induces a severe compromise to the intestinal mucosa that is historically characterized by one hyperplasia of cryptas with total or subtotal atrophy of the intestinal microvilli.
Though the definitive ...