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Main description:
Leading international researchers and clinicians comprehensively review in detail what is known about the ability of diet to enhance human immune function in health, disease, and under various condition of stress. The authors offer state-of-the-art critical appraisals of the influences on the human immune system of several important vitamins and minerals both singly and in combination. The authors also examine how nutrition modulates immune function in various disease states and under three forms of stress-vigorous exercise, military conditions, and air pollution. 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 clinical instructions about special diets and dietary components for many immune-related disease states.
Contents:
I. Overview
The Basics of Immunology for the Non-Immunologist
Keith E. Nye
Assessment of Human Immune Response
Susanna Cunningham-Rundles
Effects of Infection on Nutritional and Immune Status
David I. Thurnham and Christine A. Northrop-Clewes
Neonatal Nutrition and Immunity
Deborah O'Neil and Denise Kelly
Nutrition and Immunity in the Elderly
John D. Bogden and Donald B. Louria
II. Vitamins and Immune Responses
Vitamin A
Richard D. Semba
Vitamin C
Ronald Anderson
Vitamin E
Sung Nim Han and Simin Nikbin Meydani
Carotenoids
David A. Hughes
Multivitamins
Ho-Kyung Kwak and Jeffrey B. Blumberg
III. Minerals and Immune Responses
Iron
Gunter Weiss
Selenium
Geoffrey J. Beckett, John R. Arthur, Sue M. Miller, and Roddie C. McKenzie
Zinc
Klaus-Helge Ibs and Lothar Rink
IV. Nutrition, Immunity, and Disease
Rheumatoid Arthritis
L. Gail Darlington
Osteoporosis, Nutrition, and the Immune System
Marco Di Monaco
HIV Infection
Marianna K. Baum and Adriana Campa
Probiotics and Immunomodulation
Kay J. Rutherfurd-Markwick and Harsharnjit S. Gill
Dietary Fat, Immunity, and Cancer
Kent L. Erickson, Darshan S. Kelley, and Neil E. Hubbard
V. Environmental Stressors
Exercise, Cytokines, and Lymphocytes: Nutritional and Metabolic Aspects
Bente K. Pedersen
Military Studies and Nutritional Immunology: Undernutrition and Susceptibility to Illness
Karl E. Friedl
Air Pollution, Reactive Oxygen Species, and Allergic Bronchial Asthma: The Therapeutic Role of Antioxidants
Gennaro D'Amato
Use of Drugs that Affect Nutrition and Immune Function
Adrianne Bendich and Ronit Zilberboim
VI.Appendices
Abbreviations
Glossary
Related Books and Websites
Index.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Publication date: November, 2010
Pages: 486
Weight: 927g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Biochemistry, Nutrition, Public Health
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