Diet and Human Immune Function Book

I. Overview

The Basics of Immunology for the Non-Immunologist

Keith E. Nye

Assessment of Human Immune Response

Susanna Cunningham-Rundles

Effects of Infection on Nutritional and Immune Status

David I. Thurnham and Christine A. Northrop-Clewes

Neonatal Nutrition and Immunity

Deborah O'Neil and Denise Kelly

Nutrition and Immunity in the Elderly

John D. Bogden and Donald B. Louria

II. Vitamins and Immune Responses

Vitamin A

Richard D. Semba

Vitamin C

Ronald Anderson

Vitamin E

Sung Nim Han and Simin Nikbin Meydani

Carotenoids

David A. Hughes

Multivitamins

Ho-Kyung Kwak and Jeffrey B. Blumberg

III. Minerals and Immune Responses

Iron

Günter Weiss

Selenium

Geoffrey J. Beckett, John R. Arthur, Sue M. Miller, and Roddie C. McKenzie

Zinc

Klaus-Helge Ibs and Lothar Rink

IV. Nutrition, Immunity, and Disease

Rheumatoid Arthritis

L. Gail Darlington

Osteoporosis, Nutrition, and the Immune System

Marco Di Monaco

HIV Infection

Marianna K. Baum and Adriana Campa

Probiotics and Immunomodulation

Kay J. Rutherfurd-Markwick and Harsharnjit S. Gill

Dietary Fat, Immunity, and Cancer

Kent L. Erickson, Darshan S. Kelley, and Neil E. Hubbard

V. Environmental Stressors

Exercise, Cytokines, and Lymphocytes: Nutritional and Metabolic Aspects

Bente K. Pedersen

Military Studies and Nutritional Immunology: Undernutrition and Susceptibility to Illness

Karl E. Friedl

Air Pollution, Reactive Oxygen Species, and Allergic Bronchial Asthma: The Therapeutic Role of Antioxidants

Gennaro D'Amato

Use of Drugs that Affect Nutrition and Immune Function

Adrianne Bendich and Ronit Zilberboim

VI. Appendices

Abbreviations

Glossary

Related Books and Websites

Index.