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Perinatal nutrition and immunity to infection.
- Abstract:
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Epidemiological data provide strong evidence for a relationship between undernutrition and life-threatening infection in infants and children. However, the mechanisms that underlie this relationship are poorly understood. Through foetal life, infancy and childhood, the immune system undergoes a process of functional maturation. The adequacy of this process is dependent on environmental factors, and there is accumulating evidence of the impact of pre- and post-natal nutrition in this regard. T...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 4 Pt 1
- Pages:
- 564-576
- Publication date:
- 2010-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1399-3038
- ISSN:
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0905-6157
- Source identifiers:
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66868
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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- pubs:66868
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- 2010
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