Synopses & Reviews
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. It represents the first volume in a major new series to be published by CABI Publishing on behalf of the Nutrition Society.
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
Contributors
Preface
Part 1: The Immune System
1. The Immune System: an Overview, G. Devereux
2. Evaluation of the Effects of Nutrients on Immune Function, S. Cunningham-Rundles
Part 2: Individual Nutrients, Infection and Immune Function
3. Effect of Post-natal Protein Malnutrition and Intrauterine Growth Retardation on Immunity and Risk of Infection, R. K. Chandra
4. Fatty Acids, Inflammatory and Immunity, P. C. Calder and C. J. Field
5. Arginine and Immune Function, M. D. Duff and J. M. Daly
6. Glutamine and the Immune System, P. C. Calder and P. Newsholme
7. Sulphur Amino Acids, Glutathione and Immune Function, R. F. Grimble
8. Vitamin A, Infection and Immune Function, R. D. Semba
9. Antioxidant Vitamins and Immune Function, D. A. Hughes
10. Zinc, Infection and Immune Function, A. S. Prasad
11. Role of Iron in Immunity and Infection, S. Kuvibidila and B. S. Baliga
12. Selenium and the Immune System, R. C. McKenzie et al.
13. Probiotics and Immune Function, H. S. Gill and M. L. Cross
Part 3: Nutrition and Immunity through the Life Cycle
14. Role of Local Immunity and Breast-feeding in Mucosal Homeostasis and Defence against Infections, P. Brandtzaeg
15. Food Allergy, E. Opara
16. Exercise and Immune Function--Effect of Nutrition, E. W. Petersen and B. K. Pedersen
17. Nutrition and Ageing of the Immune System, B. Lesourd, A. Raynaud-Simon and L. Mazari
18. Nutrition, Infection and Immunity: Public Health Implications, A. Tomkins
Index