Nutrition and immune function [electronic resource] Edited by P. C. Calder, C. J. Field, H. S. Gill.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Frontiers in Nutritional SciencePublisher: WallingfordUK CABI Publishing 2002Edition: 1Description: 426ppContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780851998763
- infections
- human diseases
- immune response
- amino acids
- antioxidants
- nutrition
- food hypersensitivity
- immune system
- immunity
- communicable diseases
- vertebrates
- Chordata
- man
- Hominidae
- aging
- nutrients
- food allergies
- ageing
- mammals
- animals
- eukaryotes
- undernutrition
- vitamins
- methods
- Homo
- infectious diseases
- health policy
- minerals
- exercise
- fatty acids
- primates
- methodology
- probiotics
- public health
- immunity reactions
- immunological reactions
- immunology
This book provides a review of the roles of specific nutrients in maintaining the immune response and host protection against infection. It also considers the influence of various factors, such as exercise and ageing, on the interaction between nutrition and immune function. The main emphasis is on humans, but comparative mammalian data are also presented.The contents include methods for studying nutrient-immune function interactions, the impact of undernutrition on immune function and infection, the influences of fatty acids, amino acids, antioxidant vitamins, and various minerals on immunity, immunological effects of changes throughout the life cycle, and public health policy implications.
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