The Journal of nutrition, 1994-08, Vol.124 (8S), p.1433S-1435S
1994
Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Nutrition and immunity: an overview
- Ist Teil von
- The Journal of nutrition, 1994-08, Vol.124 (8S), p.1433S-1435S
- Ort / Verlag
- Bethesda, MD: American Society for Nutritional Sciences
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 1994
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- MEDLINE
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Historical accounts and recent epidemiologic studies have suggested a mutually aggravating relationship between malnutrition and infection. In protein-energy malnutrition, there is a significant impairment of several aspects of immunity, including cell-mediated immune responses, secretory immunoglobulin A antibody production, phagocyte function, complement system, antibody affinity and cytokine production. Several micronutrients play a crucial role in maintenance of optimum immune responses. On the other hand, excessive intake of nutrients also impairs immunity. Animals fed diets lacking in nucleotides have lower immune responses than controls but there is no enhancement of immunity when the diet contains large amounts of nucleotides. These observations have considerable practical importance in terms of designing feeding formulas
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0022-3166eISSN: 1541-6100DOI: 10.1093/jn/124.suppl_8.1433STitel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_76666663
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Animals, Biological and medical sciences, CARENCE EN SUBSTANCE NUTRITIVE, CITOQUININAS, CYTOKININE, DEFICIENCIAS NUTRITIVAS, Diet, DIETA, Disease Susceptibility - immunology, FACTEUR IMMUNOLOGIQUE, FACTORES INMUNOLOGICOS, FAGOCITOS, Feeding. Feeding behavior, Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology, Humans, Immune System - drug effects, Immune System - physiology, IMMUNITE CELLULAIRE, Immunity, Cellular - drug effects, Immunocompetence - drug effects, IMMUNOGLOBULINE, Infections, INMUNIDAD CELULAR, INMUNOGLOBULINA, Malnutrition, NUCLEOTIDE, Nucleotides - deficiency, Nucleotides - pharmacology, Nucleotides - physiology, NUCLEOTIDOS, Nutrition, Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, PHAGOCYTE, Protein-Energy Malnutrition - immunology, REACCION ANTIGENO-ANTICUERPO, REACTION ANTIGENE ANTICORPS, REGIME ALIMENTAIRE, REPONSE IMMUNITAIRE, RESPUESTA INMUNOLOGICA, Vertebrates: anatomy and physiology, studies on body, several organs or systems