Nutrition and Immunity

✍ Scribed by Maryam Mahmoudi, Nima Rezaei

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 520
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume provides readers with a systematic assessment of current literature on the link between nutrition and immunity. Chapters cover immunonutrition topics such as child development, cancer, aging, allergic asthma, food intolerance, obesity, and chronic critical illness. It also presents a thorough review of microflora of the gut and the essential role it plays in regulating the balance between immune tolerance and inflammation.

Written by experts in the field, Nutrition and Immunity helps readers to further understand the importance of healthy dietary patterns in relation to providing immunity against disorders and offering readily available immunonutritional programming in clinical care. It will be a valuable resource for dietitians, immunologists, endocrinologists and other healthcare professionals.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii
Introduction (Amene Saghazadeh, Maryam Mahmoudi, Nima Rezaei)....Pages 1-14
Vitamin D and the Immune System (Mir Hojjat Khorasanizadeh, Mahsa Eskian, Carlos A. Camargo Jr., Nima Rezaei)....Pages 15-51
Vitamin A and the Immune System (Suyasha Roy, Amit Awasthi)....Pages 53-73
Vitamin K and the Immune System (Nazli Namazi, Bagher Larijani, Leila Azadbakht)....Pages 75-79
Vitamin C and the Immune System (Davood Jafari, Abdolreza Esmaeilzadeh, Marziyeh Mohammadi-Kordkhayli, Nima Rezaei)....Pages 81-102
Vitamin B12, Folic Acid, and the Immune System (Kathleen Mikkelsen, Vasso Apostolopoulos)....Pages 103-114
Vitamin B1, B2, B3, B5, and B6 and the Immune System (Kathleen Mikkelsen, Vasso Apostolopoulos)....Pages 115-125
Zinc and the Immune System (Nour Zahi Gammoh, Lothar Rink)....Pages 127-158
Selenium and Immunity (Germaine Nkengfack, Heike Englert, Mozhdeh Haddadi)....Pages 159-165
Gut Microbiome and Immunity (Nila Ghanei, Amene Saghazadeh, Nima Rezaei)....Pages 167-181
Maternal Nutrition, Child Development, and Immunity (Fatima al-Zahraa Fouani, Maryam Mahmoudi)....Pages 183-208
Nutrition, Immunity, and Cancer (Ehsan Ghaedi, Nima Rezaei, Maryam Mahmoudi)....Pages 209-281
Nutrition and Cancer (Laleh Sharifi)....Pages 283-300
Aging, Immunity, and Neuroinflammation: The Modulatory Potential of Nutrition (Svetlana Di Benedetto, Ludmila Müller)....Pages 301-322
Vitamins and Allergic Asthma (Shahabeddin Rezaei, Zahra Aryan, Nima Rezaei, Maryam Mahmoudi)....Pages 323-345
Nutrition, Immunity, and Food Intolerances (Tracy Bush)....Pages 347-357
Potency of T-Cell Epitope-Based Peptide Vaccines in Food Allergy Treatment (Iris Pelgrim, Huub F. J. Savelkoul)....Pages 359-378
Obesity and Immunity (Hadis Sabour)....Pages 379-394
Nutrition, Immunity, and Neurological Diseases (Seema Patel)....Pages 395-406
Nutrition for Chronic Critical Illness and Persistent Inflammatory, Immunosuppressed, Catabolic Syndrome (Martin D. Rosenthal, Amir Y. Kamel, Michelle P. Brown, Angela C. Young, Jayshil J. Patel, Frederick A. Moore)....Pages 407-413
Nutrition, Immunity, and Autoimmune Diseases (Shaghayegh Arabi, Morteza Molazadeh, Nima Rezaei)....Pages 415-436
Immunomodulatory Effects of Flavonoids: Possible Induction of T CD4+ Regulatory Cells Through Suppression of mTOR Pathway Signaling Activity (Aysooda Hosseinzade, Omid Sadeghi, Akram Naghdipour Biregani, Sepideh Soukhtehzari, Gabriel S. Brandt, Ahmad Esmaillzadeh)....Pages 437-452
Glucan and Its Role in Immunonutrition (Vaclav Vetvicka, Luca Vannucci)....Pages 453-460
Nutrigenomic Immunity (Amene Saghazadeh, Maryam Mahmoudi, Nima Rezaei)....Pages 461-482
Nutriepigenomic Immunity (Amene Saghazadeh, Maryam Mahmoudi, Nima Rezaei)....Pages 483-501
Back Matter ....Pages 503-515

✦ Subjects

Medicine & Public Health; Clinical Nutrition; Immunology; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention