The distribution of gluten-sensitive lymphocytes in coeliac patients--is it related to dietary gluten?

Cell-mediated immunity to gluten within the peripheral blood and jejunal mucosa of the same coeliac patients was measured simultaneously using migration inhibition tests. There was an inverse correlation in migration indices indicating that as cell-mediated immunity became more detectable in the peripheral blood, it was less so in the jejunal mucosa and vice versa. There was virtually no relationship, however, between this correlation and the gluten content of the diet in these coeliac patients.