Early dietary exposures and feeding practices: Role in pathogenesis and prevention of allergic disease?

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 1012, 2010, Pages 94-96

  Jennings, S ^a   Prescott, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; FOLIC ACID; FOOD ALLERGEN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PROBIOTIC AGENT; RETINOIC ACID; TRACE ELEMENT; VITAMIN D;

ALLERGIC DISEASE; BREAST MILK; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; EPIGENETICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW;

ALLERGENS; ANTIOXIDANTS; DIET; ENVIRONMENT; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; FOLIC ACID; FOOD; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; MILK, HUMAN; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREBIOTICS;

EID: 76749092247     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2009.086892     Document Type: Review

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