Nutritional factors and immunological ageing
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Nutritional factors and immunological ageing.
Undernutrition profoundly affects immune responses, particularly at the extremities of life: in infants and in the elderly. The present review focuses on this interrelationship in the elderly. It describes three different stages of ageing: stage 1, healthy ageing, which is observed in very healthy elderly individuals who have no nutritional deficit; stage 2, common ageing, which is observed in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0029-6651,1475-2719
DOI: 10.1079/pns2006507