RETRACTED: Effect of vitamin and trace-element supplementation on immune responses and infection in elderly subjects

The Lancet

Volumn 340, Issue 8828, 1992, Pages 1124-1127

  Chandra, R K ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; COPPER; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; IRON; PLACEBO; PROTEIN; PYRIDOXINE; RETINOL; SELENIUM; VITAMIN; VITAMIN D; ZINC;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNITY; INFECTION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REFERENCE VALUES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRACE ELEMENTS; VITAMINS;

EID: 0026487750     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(92)93151-C     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Nutritional regulation of immunity and risk of infection in old age
2. Immune response and aging. Constitutive and environmental aspects
3. Nutrition, immunity and infection: present knowledge and future directions
4. 1990 McCollum Award Lecture. Nutrition and immunity: lessons from the past and new insights into the future
5. Nutrition of the elderly
6. Evidence of cellular zinc depletion in hospitalized but not in healthy elderly subjects
7. Vitamin E supplementation enhances cell-mediated immunity in healthy elderly subjects
8. Beneficial effects of oral zinc supplementation on the immune response of old people
9. 6 on immunocompetence in the elderly
10. The effect of dietary supplementation with vitamins A, C and E on cell-mediated immunity function in elderly long-stay patients: a randomized controlled trial
11. Nutritional status, grip strength, and immune function in institutionalized elderly
12. Vitamin status, immunity and infection in an elderly population
13. Excessive intake of zinc impairs immune responses
14. Nutrition factors in relation to cellular regulatory immune variables in a free-living elderly population
15. Numerical and functional deficiency in T helper cells in protein-energy malnutrition
16. Decreased proliferation, interleukin-2 synthesis, and interleukin 2 receptor expression are accompanied by decrease in RNA expression in PHA-stimulated cells from elderly donors
17. Effect of zinc administration on cadmium-induced suppression of natural killer cell activity in mice
18. Nutritional support improves antibody response to influenza vaccine in the elderly
19. Nutrition and immunoregulation. Significance for host resistance to tumors and infectious diseases in humans and rodents