UK food standards agency workshop report: Diet and immune function

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 103, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1684-1687

  Sanderson, Peter ^a   Elsom, Rachel L ^a   Kirkpatrick, Verity ^a   Calder, Philip C ^b   Woodside, Jayne V ^c   Williams, Elizabeth A ^d   Rink, Lothar ^e   Fairweather Tait, Susan ^f   Ivory, Kamal ^g   Cantorna, Margherita ^h   Watzl, Bernhard ⁱ   Stone, Elaine M ^a  

^a FOOD STANDARDS AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^g INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^h PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION AND FOOD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Diet; Immune function; Selenium; T lymphocytes; Vaccination; Vitamin D; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; CAROTENOID; FISH OIL; INFLUENZA VACCINE; PLACEBO; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; SELENIUM; SELENOPROTEIN; TETANUS TOXOID; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR; ZINC;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FRUIT; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; NATURAL KILLER CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM; VEGETABLE; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTIBODY FORMATION; DIET; FOOD; FRUIT; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SELENIUM; VACCINES; VEGETABLES; VITAMIN D; VITAMINS; ZINC;

EID: 77953616243     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114509993692     Document Type: Conference Paper

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