Diet and Human Immune FunctionDavid A. Hughes, L. Gail Darlington, Adrianne Bendich Humana Press, 2004 - 465 pages It is now widely appreciated that nutrition contributes significantly to the optimal working of the immune system and hence to personal health. In Diet and Human Immune Function, leading international researchers and clinicians comprehensively detail what is known about the ability of diet to enhance human immune function in health, disease, and under various conditions of stress. The authors offer state-of-the-art critical appraisals of the influences on the human immune system of several important vitamins (vitamins A, C, and E, as well as carotenoids, such as b-carotene) and minerals (iron, selenium, and zinc), both singly and in combination. The authors also examine how nutrition modulates immune function in such disease states as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, HIV infection, and cancer. Immune responses to three forms of stress-vigorous exercise, military conditions, and air pollution (in relation to allergic asthma)-are discussed in depth in unique chapters not found in any other texts. Probiotics and long-chain fatty acids are also examined for their immunomodulatory effects. A much-needed overview of the nutritional consequences of drug-disease interactions provides recommendations for potential nutritional interventions that could increase drug efficacy and/or reduce adverse side effects. "Conclusions" and "Take Home Messages" at the end of each chapter give physicians clearly stated clinical instructions about special diets and dietary components for immune-related disease states. Authoritative and highly practical, Diet and Human Immune Function provides a critical survey of the most up-to-date clinical studies of nutritional effects on immune responses for disease prevention and therapy, documenting for practicing physicians, nutritionists, immunologists, and educated consumers the enormous potential of diet to modulate immune function beneficially. |
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... cell - mediated or antibody - mediated immunity . Thus , one population , termed Th1 cells , produce , among other cytokines , IFN - y and IL - 2 . IFN - y stimulates macrophages , and IL - 2 stimulates cytotoxic T cells , both of which ...
... cell - mediated or antibody - mediated immunity . Thus , one population , termed Th1 cells , produce , among other cytokines , IFN - y and IL - 2 . IFN - y stimulates macrophages , and IL - 2 stimulates cytotoxic T cells , both of which ...
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... cell receptor CD2 ICAM - 1 HLA - DR LFA - 3 plasma membrane adhesion molecule MHC class II adhesion molecule molecule monocyte Fig . 2. Cell surface molecules involved in initiating cell - mediated immune responses . LFA , leu- kocyte ...
... cell receptor CD2 ICAM - 1 HLA - DR LFA - 3 plasma membrane adhesion molecule MHC class II adhesion molecule molecule monocyte Fig . 2. Cell surface molecules involved in initiating cell - mediated immune responses . LFA , leu- kocyte ...
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... cell - mediated immunity . We observed no significant changes in T - cell subset numbers , lectin - stimulated lympho- cyte proliferation , or surface molecule expression after any of these interventions ( 46 ) , despite significant ...
... cell - mediated immunity . We observed no significant changes in T - cell subset numbers , lectin - stimulated lympho- cyte proliferation , or surface molecule expression after any of these interventions ( 46 ) , despite significant ...
Contents
Assessment of Human Immune Response | 17 |
Effects of Infection on Nutritional and Immune Status | 35 |
Neonatal Nutrition and Immunity | 65 |
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acute antibody antigens antioxidant apoptosis ascorbic acid associated B-carotene bacteria Bendich Biol blood bone cancer carotenoids CD4+ cell-mediated cellular Clin Nutr clinical concentrations cytokine cytokine production cytotoxic decreased diabetes diarrhea diet dietary disease doses drugs effect of vitamin elderly enhanced exercise factors fatty acids Health HIV infection Human Immune immune function immune response immune system Immunol immunologic impaired increased infants inflammatory inhibit intake interleukin intracellular iron leukocytes levels lipid lymphocyte macrophages metabolism Meydani mg/d mice micronutrient modulation molecules monocytes mortality multivitamin neonatal neutrophils NK cells nutrients nutritional status osteoporosis oxidative stress patients phagocytic Physiol placebo plasma probiotic proliferation protein receptor reduced respiratory retinoic acid retinol rheumatoid arthritis risk role selenium serum studies T-cell therapy tion tissue trial tumor virus vitamin A deficiency vitamin A supplementation vitamin B12 vitamin E vitro vivo women zinc deficiency
References to this book
Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Theory and Practice Kenrad E. Nelson,Carolyn Masters Williams No preview available - 2007 |