Update: Effects of antioxidant and non-antioxidant vitamin supplementation on immune function

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 181-217

  Webb, Aimee L ^a   Villamor, Eduardo ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B HEPATITIS B VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA TETANUS VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFLUENZA VACCINE; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LYCOPENE; PLACEBO; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; PYRIDOXINE; RETINOL; SELENIUM; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VITAMIN B COMPLEX; VITAMIN B GROUP; XANTHOPHYLL; ANTIOXIDANT; VITAMIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; CARROT; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON COLD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEUKOPLAKIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; TOMATO; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTIBODY FORMATION; ANTIOXIDANTS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; VITAMINS;

EID: 34347217095     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1301/nr.2007.may.181-217     Document Type: Review

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