Intestinal epithelium, intraepithelial lymphocytes and the gut microbiota - Key players in the pathogenesis of celiac disease
Bożena Cukrowska, Agnieszka Sowińska, Joanna Beata Bierła, Elżbieta Czarnowska, Anna Rybak, Urszula Grzybowska-Chlebowczyk
Bożena Cukrowska, Agnieszka Sowińska, Joanna Beata Bierła, Elżbieta Czarnowska, Department of Pathology, The Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw 04-730, Poland
Anna Rybak, Department of Gastroenterology, Division of Neurogastroenterology and Motility, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London WC1N 3JH, United Kingdom
Urszula Grzybowska-Chlebowczyk, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, 40-752, Poland
Author contributions: Cukrowska B conceived and designed the study, and drafted and reviewed the manuscript; Sowińska A conceived the study, reviewed the literature, made the figures, and drafted the manuscript; Czarnowska E, Bierła J and Grzybowska-Chlebowczyk U reviewed the literature and drafted the manuscript; Rybak A drafted and reviewed the manuscript; all authors read and approved the manuscript.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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Supported by the Children’s Memorial Health Institute Grants, No. 236/15, No. 243/16 and No. S147/2016.
Correspondence to: Bożena Cukrowska, MD, Professor, PhD, Department of Pathology, Laboratory of Immunology, The Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Aleja Dzieci Polskich 20, 04-730 Warsaw, Poland. b.cukrowska@ipczd.pl
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Received: May 22, 2017
Peer-review started: May 23, 2017
First decision: June 23, 2017
Revised: July 31, 2017
Accepted: August 15, 2017
Article in press: August 15, 2017
Published online: November 14, 2017
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