Nonetheless, every time scientists and clinicians from all around the world gather for a high-class symposium, coeliac disease has step by step to give in and reveal its secrets. This volume reports the achievements of the 7th International Symposium on Coeliac Disease, held in Tampere, Finland, in September, 1996. This multidisciplinary edition covers broadly the clinical aspects of coeliac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis, the responses to cereals in in vivo and in vitro studies, diagnostic criteria, biopsy and screening policy, gluten and gliadin as precipitating factors in coeliac disease, immunology, genetics and new trends in coeliac disease research.

The collection comprises fundamental matter, touching upon vital aspects of coeliac disease and its mysteries. The 38 chapters of the Proceedings have been written by the world´s leading coeliac disease experts, and all the information in this volume is of current interest. For the basic scientist it brings adequate and useful knowledge of the clinical aspects of coeliac disease, while the clinician will welcome the basic knowledge it brings about the world lying beneath the epithelium. Coeliac disease is a great dissembler.