Nutrition and immune function /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI Publishing, in association with The Nutrition Society, 2002.
• Series: Frontiers in nutritional science ; no. 1.
• Subjects: Immune system.; Nutrition.; Natural immunity.; Dietary supplements.; Policy and Planning.; Human Immunology and Allergology, (New March 2000); Physiology of Human Nutrition.; Nutrition related Disorders and Therapeutic Nutrition.; Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000); Protozoan, Helminth and Arthropod Parasites of Humans, (New March 2000); Non-communicable Human Diseases and Injuries.; Techniques and Methodology.; Man.; Aging.; Amino acids.; Antioxidants.; Exercise.; Fatty acids.; Food allergies.; Health policy.; Human diseases.; Immune response.; Immunity.; Immunology.; Infections.; Infectious diseases.; Methodology.; Minerals.; Nutrients.; Probiotics.; Public health.; Undernutrition.; Vitamins.; Electronic books.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.