Nutrition, Immunity, and Infection
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- English
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Nutrition, Immunity, and Infection
About This Book
Both nutrition deficiency and overnutrition can have a significant effect on the risk of infection. Nutrition, Immunity, and Infection focuses on the influence of diet on the immune system and how altering one's diet helps prevent and treat infections and chronic diseases. This book reviews basic immunology and discusses changes in immune function throughout the life course. It features comprehensive chapters on obesity and the role of immune cells in adipose tissue; undernutrition and malnutrition; infant immune maturation; pre- and probiotics; mechanisms of immune regulation by various vitamins and minerals; nutrition and the aging immune system; nutrition interactions with environmental stress; and immunity in the global health arena.
Nutrition, Immunity, and Infection describes the various roles of nutrients and other food constituents on immune function, host defense, and resistance to infection. It describes the impact of infection on nutritional status through a translational approach. Chapters bring together molecular, cellular, and experimental studies alongside human trials so that readers can assess both the evidence for the effects of the food component being discussed and the mechanisms underlying those effects. The impact of specific conditions including obesity, anorexia nervosa, and HIV infection is also considered.
Chapter authors are experts in nutrition, immunity, and infection from all around the globe, including Europe, Australia, Brazil, India, and the United States. This book is a valuable resource for nutrition scientists, food scientists, dietitians, health practitioners, and students interested in nutrition and immunity.
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1 Introduction to the Immune System
CONTENTS
1.1 INTRODUCTION
1.2 INNATE IMMUNITY
1.2.1 BARRIERS
1.2.2 PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTORS
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introduction to the Immune System
- Chapter 2 The Gut-Associated Lymphoid System
- Chapter 3 Obesity, Immunity, and Infection
- Chapter 4 Role of Immune Cells in Adipose Tissue
- Chapter 5 Influence of Infection and Inflammation on Nutrient Status
- Chapter 6 Undernutrition, Infection, and Poor Growth in Infants and Children
- Chapter 7 Immunity in Anorexia Nervosa
- Chapter 8 Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Response to Vaccination
- Chapter 9 The Immunological Benefits of Complex Oligosaccharides in Human Milk
- Chapter 10 Mechanisms of Immune Regulation by Vitamin A and Its Metabolites
- Chapter 11 Vitamin A, Immunity, and Infection
- Chapter 12 Vitamin E, Immunity, and Infection
- Chapter 13 Iron, Immunity, and Infection
- Chapter 14 Selenium as a Regulator of Inflammation and Immunity
- Chapter 15 Zinc Regulation of the Immune Response
- Chapter 16 Short-Chain Fatty Acids, G Protein-Coupled Receptors, and Immune Cells
- Chapter 17 Omega-3 Fatty Acids and T-Cell Responses
- Chapter 18 Novel Immunoregulatory Mediators Produced from Omega-3 Fatty Acids
- Chapter 19 Roles of Arginine in Cell-Mediated and Humoral Immunity
- Chapter 20 Nitric Oxide and the Immune System
- Chapter 21 Glutamine and the Immune System
- Chapter 22 Glutathione, Immunity, and Infection
- Chapter 23 Dietary Nucleotides and Immunity
- Chapter 24 Gangliosides and Immune Regulation
- Chapter 25 AHCC Nutritional Supplement and the Immune Response
- Chapter 26 Environmental Stressors, Immunity, and Nutrition
- Chapter 27 Nutrition, Immunity, and Infection: Ayurvedic and Conventional Perspectives
- Chapter 28 Poor Maternal Nutritional Status or HIV Infection and Infant Outcomes: Evidence from India and Africa
- Chapter 29 Postpregnancy Ethnic Nutritional Practices in India: A Critical Perspective of Immunity and Infection
- Index