Dietary Components and Immune Function

Dietary Components and Immune Function focuses on immune modulation, immune mediated disease resistance, immune changes due to AIDS, immune modulated cancer therapy, and autoimmune diseases as modified by dietary supplement, bioactive foods and supplement

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Nutrition ‡ and ‡ Health Adrianne Bendich, PhD, FACN, Series Editor

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Dietary Components and Immune Function Edited by

Ronald R. Watson, PhD Division of Health Promotion Science, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Sherma Zibadi, MD, PhD

Division of Health Promotion Science, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Victor R. Preedy, PhD King’s College London, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, UK

Editors Ronald R. Watson Division of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA [email protected]

Sherma Zibadi Division of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA [email protected]

Victor R. Preedy King’s College London Department of Nutrition and Dietetics UK [email protected] Series Editor Adrianne Bendich GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Parsippany, NJ

ISBN 978-1-60761-060-1 e-ISBN 978-1-60761-061-8 DOI 10.1007/978-1-60761-061-8 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010931836 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Humana Press, c/o Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of going to press, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Humana Press is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Acknowledgments The work of editorial assistant, Bethany L. Stevens, in communicating with authors, working with the manuscripts and the publisher was critical to the successful completion of the book and is much appreciated. Her daily responses to queries and collection of manuscripts and documents were extremely helpful. Support for her work was ­graciously provided by Elwood Richard and the National Health Research Institute in support of its mission to communicate with scientists about bioactive foods and dietary supplements was vi