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Dietary Components and Immune Function

  • Holistic in its coverage
  • Written by International experts
  • Well illustrated throughout and "readable"
  • Each chapter is "self contained"
  • Wide coverage In-depth analysis and discourse
  • One-stop-shopping" approach to everything you need to know about dietary components including botanical products in immune regulation and disease prevention
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Nutrition and Health (NH)

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Table of contents (35 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
  2. Development of Human Immune Responses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Nutrition, The Infant and the Immune System

      • Ger T. Rijkers, Laetitia Niers, Marianne Stasse-Wolthuis, Frans M. Rombouts
      Pages 3-23
    3. Role of Maternal and Infant Malnutrition on the Development of the Inflammatory Response

      • Maristella A. Landgraf, Richardt G. Landgraf, Zuleica B. Fortes
      Pages 43-62
    4. Nutrition and Immunity in Animal Disease: Lessons from Parasitic Gastroenteritis

      • Spiridoula Athanasiadou, Jos G. M. Houdijk
      Pages 63-74
    5. Neuroimmunomodulation, Stress–Nutrition Interactions and Diet

      • Javier Romeo Marin, Julia Wärnberg, E. Nova, Gómez-Martínez S Sonia, Ligia Esperanza Díaz, A. Veses et al.
      Pages 75-87
    6. The Intricate Role of Adipokines in Immune-Mediated Diseases

      • Pedro Manoel Mendes Moraes-Vieira, Richardt Gama Landgraf, Niels Olsen Saraiva Câmara
      Pages 89-110
    7. Obesity and Immune Functions

      • Qingde Zhou, Salomon Amar
      Pages 111-128
  3. Nutrients and Immunomodulation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
    2. Host Immune Resistance and Dietary Lipids

      • Manuel A. de Pablo Martínez, Maria A. Puertollano, Elena Puertollano
      Pages 131-153
    3. Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids: Immunomodulators in Disease

      • Jean-Luc Desseyn, Frédéric Gottrand
      Pages 155-172
    4. Immunomodulatory Potential of Conjugated Linolenic Acid

      • Saji Menon, Shalini Jain, Ravinder Nagpal, Manoj Kumar, Dheeraj Mohania, Dhananjay Yadav et al.
      Pages 217-226
    5. Trace Elements and Immune Function

      • James P. McClung, Daniel G. Peterson
      Pages 253-262
    6. Vitamin Supplements and Disease Resistance in HIV-Infected Women and Children

      • Joanne E. Arsenault, Eduardo Villamor
      Pages 263-279
  4. Nutriceuticals and Immune-mediated Cancer Therapy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 281-281

About this book

Dietary Components and Immune Function focuses on immune modulation, immune mediated disease resistance, immune changes due to AIDS, immune modulated cancer therapy, and autoimmune diseases as modified by dietary supplement, bioactive foods and supplements. The potential value of such approaches in maintaining wellness and preventing disease are addressed by examining their effects in vitro and in vivo on innate and adaptive immune responses. Emerging fields of science and important discoveries relating to early stages of new nutriceuticals in cancer prevention, prior to clinical trials are also covered. This volume represents a single source of material related to nutriceuticals and their constituents as they relate to cancer therapy and prevention. As such the book will be essential reading for nutritionists, pharmacologists, health care professionals, research scientists, cancer workers, pathologists, molecular or cellular biochemists, physicians, general practitioners as well as those interested in diet and nutrition in disease resistance via immune regulation.

Reviews

From the reviews:

“Dietary modulation of immune modulation, immune mediated disease resistance, immune changes due to AIDS, immune modulated cancer therapy, and autoimmune diseases is addressed in detail in this unique new book showing its potential value in maintaining wellness and preventing disease. Nutriceuticals and their components relate to both the therapy and prevention of malignancies. Comprehensive therapists will benefit from broad perspectives explored in this book while nutritionists, pharmacologists, health care professionals, research scientists, cancer workers, pathologists, and biochemists will find the details important.” (William H. Wehrmacher and Harry Messmore, Comprehensive Therapy, 2011)

“This book was aimed to provide accessibility of information to health professionals (medical specialists) medical practice, nursing, pharmacy, students and nutrition related allied health professionals. In my opinion, this book is highly appropriate for nutritional immunologists who are actively researching in this field … . On a more positive note, the aim to provide thorough information that allows the reader to decide for themselves the value of specific nutrients, their usage, and risks for the treatment of immune dysfunction, is clearly achieved.” (Andrew Foey, Immunology News, February, 2011)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Health Sciences Center, Department of Health Promotion Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

    Ronald Ross Watson

  • Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of, Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

    Sherma Zibadi

  • Dept. Nutrition & Dietetics, King's College, London, United Kingdom

    Victor R. Preedy

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dietary Components and Immune Function

  • Editors: Ronald Ross Watson, Sherma Zibadi, Victor R. Preedy

  • Series Title: Nutrition and Health

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-061-8

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-60761-060-1Published: 11 August 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5818-4Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-60761-061-8Published: 30 July 2010

  • Series ISSN: 2628-197X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2628-1961

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 693

  • Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general, Immunology, Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition, Oncology, Primary Care Medicine

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Softcover Book USD 199.99
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