Nutrition and Immune Function

✍ Scribed by P C Calder, C J Field, H S Gill

• Publisher: CABI
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 440
• Series: Frontiers in Nutritional Science
• Edition: First
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

1.pdf......Page 1
preface.pdf......Page 11
3.pdf......Page 13
imuno.pdf......Page 15
imuno2.pdf......Page 35
imuno3.pdf......Page 55
imuno4.pdf......Page 71
imuno5.pdf......Page 107
imuno6.pdf......Page 123
imuno7.pdf......Page 147
imuno8.pdf......Page 165
imuno9.pdf......Page 185
imuno10.pdf......Page 207
imuno11.pdf......Page 223
imuno12.pdf......Page 243
imuno13.pdf......Page 265
imuno14.pdf......Page 287
imuno15.pdf......Page 335
imuno16.pdf......Page 361
imuno17.pdf......Page 371
imuno18.pdf......Page 389
imuno-index.pdf......Page 427