Dietary Components and Immune Function

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)

Development of Human Immune Responses.- Nutrition, The Infant and the Immune System.- Breast Milk: Components with Immune Modulating Potential and Their Possible Role in Immune Mediated Disease Resistance.- Role of Maternal and Infant Malnutrition on the Development of the Inflammatory Response.- Nutrition and Immunity in Animal Disease: Lessons from Parasitic Gastroenteritis.- Neuroimmunomodulation, StressNutrition Interactions and Diet.- The Intricate Role of Adipokines in Immune-Mediated Diseases.- Obesity and Immune Functions.- Nutrients and Immunomodulation.- Host Immune Resistance and Dietary Lipids.- Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids: Immunomodulators in Disease.- Immunomodulation by Fish Oil Derived Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Cancer.- Brain Innate Immune System and Its Modulation by Diet: The Role of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids.- Immunomodulatory Potential of Conjugated Linolenic Acid.- Vitamins and Minerals: Contribution to Immune Function and Health.- Trace Elements and Immune Function.- Vitamin Supplements and Disease Resistance in HIV-Infected Women and Children.- Nutriceuticals and Immune-mediated Cancer Therapy.- Fruit, Vegetables, and Extracts: Role in Cancer Prevention.- Lactoferrin in Immune Function, Cancer and Disease Resistance.- Plant-Derived Anticancer Agents Used in Western and Oriental Medicine.- The Immunological Modulation of Fuzheng TCM Herbs in Cancer Treatment.- Dietary Components: Allergy and Asthma.- Role of Dietary Components in the Epidemic of Allergic Disease.- Feeding in the First Month of Life and Prevention of Allergy.- In Vitro and In Vivo Immunomodulatory and Anti-allergic Effects of Agaricus blazei Murill.- Botanical Extracts and Bioactive Foods.- Resveratrol and Bioactive Flavonoids in Immune Function.- AntiviralActivity of Phytochemicals: A Current Perspective.- Cocoa and the Immune System and Proliferative Disorders.- Maturation and Activation of Dendritic Cells by Botanicals Used in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Role in Immune Enhancement.- Microalgae and Immune Potential.- Mushrooms: Immunomodulating Activity and Role in Health Promotion.- Immunological Functions of Polysaccharides from Soy Sauce.- Cinnamon and Immune Actions: Potential Role in Tristetraprolin-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases.- Immunotoxicology and Foods.- Prebiotics and Probiotics.- Probiotics and Inflammatory Immune Responses.- Prebiotics in Immuno-Modulation for Treatment of Acute Pancreatitis.- Probiotics and Immunomodulation.- Immunomodulation by Foods and Microbes in Crohn Disease and Ulcerative Colitis.