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From the Departments of Clinical Neurology (Drs. Hadjivassiliou, Davies–Jones, and Grünewald) and Gastroenterology (Dr. Sanders), The Royal Hallamshire Hospital, and Division of Biomedical Sciences (Drs. Simpson and Woodroofe, and C.A. Williamson), Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK; and Department of Biology (S. Boscolo, and Drs. Not and Tongiorgi), Brain Centre for Neuroscience, University of Trieste and IRCSS, Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. M. Hadjivassiliou, Department of Clinical Neurology, The Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JF, UK; e-mail: m.hadjivassiliou{at}sheffield.ac.uk
Objective: To characterize humoral response to cerebellum in patients with gluten ataxia.
Background: Gluten ataxia is a common neurologic manifestation of gluten sensitivity.
Methods: The authors assessed the reactivity of sera from patients with gluten ataxia (13), newly diagnosed patients with celiac disease without neurologic dysfunction (24), patients with other causes of cerebellar degeneration (11), and healthy control subjects (17) using indirect immunocytochemistry on human cerebellar and rat CNS tissue. Cross-reactivity of a commercial IgG antigliadin antibody with human cerebellar tissue also was studied.
Results: Sera from 12 of 13 patients with gluten ataxia stained Purkinje cells strongly. Less intense staining was seen in some but not all sera from patients with newly diagnosed celiac disease without neurologic dysfunction. At high dilutions (1:800) staining was seen only with sera from patients with gluten ataxia but not in control subjects. Sera from patients with gluten ataxia also stained some brainstem and cortical neurons in rat CNS tissue. Commercial anti-gliadin antibody stained human Purkinje cells in a similar manner. Adsorption of the antigliadin antibodies using crude gliadin abolished the staining in patients with celiac disease without neurologic dysfunction, but not in those with gluten ataxia.
Conclusions: Patients with gluten ataxia have antibodies against Purkinje cells. Antigliadin antibodies cross-react with epitopes on Purkinje cells.
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