{"id":19377,"date":"2026-11-04T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glutendtrotters.com\/?p=19377"},"modified":"2026-10-17T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T13:17:12","slug":"blood-proteins-celiac-gut-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glutendtrotters.com\/en\/blood-proteins-celiac-gut-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Proteins Could Reveal Whether a Celiac’s Gut Is Actually Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once someone with celiac disease starts a gluten-free diet, doctors face a tricky follow-up question: is the gut actually healing?<\/strong> The standard tool, the tTG-IgA antibody blood test, tends to lose its edge right when it matters most \u2014 antibody levels often drop once gluten is removed from the diet, even if the small intestine hasn’t fully recovered. A new study from the University of Oslo<\/strong> in Norway points to a different approach: scanning a broader set of blood proteins that may track what’s genuinely happening in the gut lining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research, published in Gastroenterology<\/em>, comes from the Norwegian Coeliac Disease Research Centre<\/strong> at the University of Oslo and the Clinical and Translational Coeliac Disease Centre<\/strong> at Oslo University Hospital. Here’s what the team found, what it could mean for monitoring the disease, and where the evidence still falls short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blood samples in a laboratory. The Oslo team analyzed 264 blood and intestinal tissue samples from people with celiac disease and from people without it. Illustrative image generated with AI.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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