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Research news
This page features recent published research on Coeliac and Small Intestinal Diseases, that we believe is informative to the field.
European Guideline for Coeliac Disease
Our new guideline has been published! Part 1 focuses on establishin the coeliac diagnossis and includes the serology-only approach!
IL-2 in whole blood for Celiac diagnosis
Published in June 2025 in Gastroenterology, Jason Tye-Din´s group from Melbourne, Australia, have provided prospectively collected data on a new assay measuring IL-2 in whole blood (so-called WBAIL-2 assay). They show sensitivities up to 90% and specifities as high as 95% even in patients already consuming a gluten-free diet.
Moscatelli et al., doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2025.05.022.
IFN-gamma causes crypt hyperplasia
Jorunn Stamnaes, PI in Ludvig Sollid´s group in Oslo, has convincingly shown in human small intestinal tissue and also in a murine conditional knock-out model, that T-cell derived IFN-gamma will trigger crypt hyperplasia by signaling in epithelia via the IFNg-receptor-1/STAT1 axis.
Stamnaes et al.,doi.org/10.1172/JCI194858.
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