Military Strategies for Sustainment of Nutrition and Immune Function in the Field (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Studies in bone marrow transplant patients and postoperative patients support the concept that glutamine is a specific growth factor for lymphocytes. In Chapter 12, the author provides a brief review of vitamin A deficiency as a nutritionally acquired immunodeficiency disorder that primarily affects infants, preschool children, and pregnant and lactating women.
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The controversy that has developed in recent years over the relationship between iron nutritional status and susceptibility to infection, mediated by the effects of iron on the host and the pathogen is explored in Chapter 15. The evidence reviewed suggests that iron deficiency provides little nonspecific protection against infections and that iron overload stimulates growth of a very limited number of pathogens, but results in real damage of the immune system.
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