| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Vitamin D and the Immune System -- Vitamin A and the Immune System -- Vitamin K and the Immune System -- Vitamin C and the Immune System -- Vitamin B12, Folic Acid, and the Immune System -- Zinc and the Immune System -- Selenium and the Immune System -- Selenium and Immunity -- Gut Microbiome and Immunity -- Maternal Nutrition, Child Development, and Immunity -- Nutrition, Immunity, and Cancer -- Nutrition and Cancer -- Aging, Immunity, and Neuroinflammation: The Modulatory Potential of Nutrition -- Vitamins and Allergic Asthma -- Nutrition, Immunity, and Food Intolerances -- Potency of T-Cell Epitope-Based Peptide Vaccines in Food Allergy Treatment -- Obesity and Immunity -- Nutrition, Immunity, and Neurological Diseases -- Nutrition for Chronic Critical Illness and Persistent Inflammatory, Immunosuppressed, Catabolic Syndrome -- Nutrition, Immunity, and Autoimmune Diseases -- Immunomodulatory Effects of Flavonoids: Possible Induction of TCD4+ Regulatory Cells through mTor Signaling Pathway Suppression -- Glucan and its Role in Immunonutrition -- Nutrigenomic Immunity -- Nutriepigenomic Immunity |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 13, 2019) |
| Subject |
Immunity -- Nutritional aspects.
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Immunity -- Nutritional aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mahmoudi, Maryam, editor
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Rezaei, Nima, editor.
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| ISBN |
3030160734 |
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9783030160739 |
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