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Nutrition and Immunity in the Elderly

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Diet and Human Immune Function

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Within the past few years, a considerable amount of new information on the role of nutrition in the aging immune response has been published. This chapter is an update and expansion in scope of a chapter written by us and published in 2001 (1).

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Bogden, J.D., Louria, D.B. (2004). Nutrition and Immunity in the Elderly. In: Hughes, D.A., Darlington, L.G., Bendich, A. (eds) Diet and Human Immune Function. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-652-2_5

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