Nutrition and immune function /

This book contains 18 chapters discussing the roles of specific nutrients in maintaining the immune response and protection against infection and non-communicable diseases, and the influence of various factors, such as exercise and aging, on the interaction between nutrition and immune function. The...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI Publishing, in association with The Nutrition Society, 2002.
Series:Frontiers in nutritional science ; no. 1.
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245 0 0 |a Nutrition and immune function /  |c edited by Philip C. Calder, University of Southampton, UK, Catherine J. Field, University of Alberta, Canada and Harsharnjit S. Gill, Massey University, New Zealand. 
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504 # # |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 # |a The Immune System : an Overview / G. Devereux -- Evaluation of the Effects of Nutrients on Immune Function / S. Cunningham-Rundles -- Effect of Post-natal Protein Malnutrition and Intrauterine Growth Retardation on Immunity and Risk of Infection / R.K. Chandra -- Fatty Acids, Inflammation and Immunity / P.C. Calder and C.J. Field -- Arginine and Immune Function / M.D. Duff and J.M. Daly -- Glutamine and the Immune System / P.C. Calder and P. Newsholme -- Sulphur Amino Acids, Glutathione and Immune Function / R.F. Grimble -- Vitamin A, Infection and Immune Function / R.D. Semba -- Antioxidant Vitamins and Immune Function / D.A. Hughes -- Zinc, Infection and Immune Function / A.S. Prasad -- Role of Iron in Immunity and Infection / S. Kuvibidila and B.S. Baliga -- Selenium and the Immune System / R.C. McKenzie, J.R. Arthur, S.M. Miller, T.S. Rafferty and G.J. Beckett -- Probiotics and Immune Function / H.S. Gill and M.L. Cross -- Role of Local Immunity and Breast-feeding in Mucosal Homoeostasis and Defence against Infections / P. Brandtzaeg -- Food Allergy / E. Opara -- Exercise and Immune Function : Effect of Nutrition / E.W. Petersen and B.K. Pedersen -- Nutrition and Ageing of the Immune System / B. Lesourd, A. Raynaud-Simon and L. Mazari -- Nutrition, Infection and Immunity : Public Health Implications / A. Tomkins. 
506 # # |a Access limited to subscribing institution. 
520 3 # |a This book contains 18 chapters discussing the roles of specific nutrients in maintaining the immune response and protection against infection and non-communicable diseases, and the influence of various factors, such as exercise and aging, on the interaction between nutrition and immune function. 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, various minerals and probiotics on immunity, food allergies, immunological effects of changes throughout the life cycle, and public health policy implications. 
530 # # |a Also available in print format. 
588 # # |a Title from PDF title page (viewed August 23, 2013). 
650 # 0 |a Immune system. 
650 # 0 |a Nutrition. 
650 # 0 |a Natural immunity. 
650 # 0 |a Dietary supplements. 
650 # 4 |a Policy and Planning. 
650 # 4 |a Human Immunology and Allergology, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Physiology of Human Nutrition. 
650 # 4 |a Nutrition related Disorders and Therapeutic Nutrition. 
650 # 4 |a Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Protozoan, Helminth and Arthropod Parasites of Humans, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Non-communicable Human Diseases and Injuries. 
650 # 4 |a Techniques and Methodology. 
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650 # 7 |a Amino acids.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Antioxidants.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Exercise.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Fatty acids.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Food allergies.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Health policy.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Human diseases.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Immune response.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Immune system.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Immunity.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Immunology.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Infections.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Infectious diseases.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Methodology.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Minerals.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Nutrients.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Nutrition.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Probiotics.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Public health.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Undernutrition.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Vitamins.  |2 cabt 
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