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PAPERBACK list:$130.25 Web:$117.23 add to cart PDF BOOK your price: $100.00 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free Resources PDF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Mineral Requirements for Military Personnel: Levels Needed for Cognitive and Physical Performance During Garrison Training Monitoring Metabolic Status: Predicting Decrements in Physiological and Cognitive Performance Other Related Titles Military Strategies for Sustainment of Nutrition and Immune Function in the Field (1999) Institute of Medicine (IOM) Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Page 233   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. IV ASSESSMENT Measurement of ''immunity'' has often focused on measurement of humoral immunity to determine the presence of protective antibodies. Cellular immune function is fundamentally more complex and difficult to measure. Chapter 9 emphasizes the importance of the rationale for undertaking immune assessment to selecting the appropriate assessment method. It also provides a brief description of a variety of in vivo, and in vitro assessment methodologies. The use of whole-blood cultures for evaluation of functional activity of lymphoid cells in vitro is explored in Chapter 10 with an emphasis on the feasibility of their use for field studies. Page 233 Front Matter (R1-R14) Executive Summary (1-16) I Committee Summary, Responses to Questions, Conclusions, and Recommendations (17-18) 1 A Review of the Role of Nutrition in Immune Function (19-98) 2 Committee Responses to Questions (99-124) 3 Committee Conclusions and Recommendations (125-135) II Stage Setting: The Military Situation (137-138) 4 Why is the Army Interested in Nutrition and Immune Function? (139-162) 5 Physiological and Immunological Impact of U.S. Army Special Operations Training: A Model for the Assessment of Nutritional Intervention Effects on Temporary Immunosuppression (163-184) 6 Immune Function Studies During the Ranger Training Course of the Norwegian Military Academy (185-202) III Introduction to Immune Function (203-204) 7 Nutrition and Immune Responses: What Do We Know? (205-220) 8 Cytokines and Nutritional Status: Possible Correlations and Investigations (221-232) IV Assessment (233-234) 9 Methodological Issues in Assessment of Human Immune Function (235-248) 10 Application of Whole-Blood Cultures to Field Study Measurements (249-262) V Nutrition (263-264) 11 Glutamine (265-278) 12 Vitamin A and Immune Function (279-288) 13 Vitamin E, Vitamin C, and Immune Response: Recent Advances (289-304) 14 Fatty Acids and Immune Functions (305-316) 15 Iron Metabolism, Microbial Virulence, and Host Defenses (317-336) 16 Trace Minerals, Immune Function, and Viral Evolution (337-359) VI Health and Stress (361-362) 17 Exercise, Infection, and Immunity: Practial Applications (363-390) 18 Neuroendocrine Consequences of Systemic Inflammation (391-408) 19 Inflammatory Stress and the Immune System (409-436) 20 Chronobiology of the Immune System (437-496) 21 Conclusion: Militarily Important Issues Identified in this Report (497-508) Appendixes (509-510) Appendix A: Overview of the Immune System and Other Host Defense Mechanisms (511-526) Appendix B: Glossary of Immunological Terms (527-536) Appendix C: Overview of Immune Assessment Tests (537-542) Appendix D: Emerging Infections, Nutritional Status, and Immunity (543-552) Appendix E: Workshop Agenda (553-558) Appendix F: Biographical Sketches (559-574) Appendix G: Acronyms and Abbreviations (575-580) Appendix H: Nutrition and Immune Function: A Selected Bibliography (581-656) Index (657-708)

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