Protist Tritrichomonas arnold protects against viral-induced gluten intolerance
18 Dec 2023by Heather Galipeau, Mark Wulczynski
Celiac disease is a chronic immune-mediated enteropathy that may be unleashed by enteric viral infections. However, new findings in mice identified a commensal protist, Tritrichomonas arnold, that protects against reovirus-induced intolerance to gluten by counteracting virus-induced proinflammatory dendritic cell activation.