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Nutrition and Immunity

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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.  

List of 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.

About the author

Maryam Mahmoudi, PhDTehran University of Medical SciencesNutritional Sciences and DieteticsTehran, Iran Nima Rezaei, MDTehran University of Medical SciencesDepartment of Immunology and BiologyTehran, Iran

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.  

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“This is an excellent resource for specialized practitioners with a fundamental knowledge of key concepts … . the book offers readers a large body of evidence‐based literature and research to use in clinical practice.” (Hannah Lapkin, Doody's Book Reviews, November 08, 2019)

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"This is an excellent resource for specialized practitioners with a fundamental knowledge of key concepts ... . the book offers readers a large body of evidence-based literature and research to use in clinical practice." (Hannah Lapkin, Doody's Book Reviews, November 08, 2019)

Product details

Assisted by Marya Mahmoudi (Editor), Maryam Mahmoudi (Editor), Rezaei (Editor), Rezaei (Editor), Nima Rezaei (Editor)
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.09.2019
 
EAN 9783030160722
ISBN 978-3-0-3016072-2
No. of pages 515
Dimensions 178 mm x 263 mm x 29 mm
Weight 1243 g
Illustrations XVIII, 515 p. 35 illus., 30 illus. in color.
Series Nutrition and Health
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Medical professions

B, Medicine, Immunologie, Immunology, Public Health und Präventivmedizin, Nutrition, health promotion, Clinical Nutrition, Public health & preventive medicine, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Public health and preventive medicine

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