Regulatory effects of a fermented food concentrate on immune function parameters in healthy volunteers

Nutrition

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 499-505

  Schoen, Christiane ^a   Schulz, Anne ^a   Schweikart, Jennifer ^a   Schütt, Sabine ^b   von Baehr, Volker ^b  

^a BIOTESYS GMBH   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Medizinische Diagnostik   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti inflammatory; Glutathione; Immunomodulation; Natural killer cells; Oxidative status; Soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1; Soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule 1

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 2; POLYPHENOL; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FERMENTATION; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; FRUIT; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; LIFESTYLE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MONOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULAT; VEGETABLE;

ADULT; CYTOKINE-INDUCED KILLER CELLS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FERMENTATION; FLAVONOIDS; FRUIT; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFLAMMATION; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LACTOBACILLUS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NUTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENOLS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE-1; VEGETABLES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63049090009     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2008.10.022     Document Type: Article

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