Maternal diet and its influence on the development of allergic disease

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 63-74

  Miles, E A ^a   Calder, P C ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PLACEBO; VITAMIN D; ALLERGEN; VITAMIN; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

ALLERGIC DISEASE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; DISEASE COURSE; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; HYDROXYLATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIPID COMPOSITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SENSITIZATION; VITAMIN INTAKE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FOLIC ACID; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; VITAMIN B COMPLEX; VITAMIN D; VITAMINS;

EID: 84919708396     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cea.12453     Document Type: Review

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