The Effect of Nutrition in Healthy and Unhealthy Immune System
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutritional Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 40239
Special Issue Editor
Interests: autoimmunity; autoimmune diseases; diet; immunosupression; immunoregulation; microbiome; nutrition; rheumatic diseases
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Dear Colleagues,
Nutrition plays an important role in the homeostasis of the immune system. A healthy diet participates in the fine balance of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory mediators and immune cells and assists efforts of the immune system to fight infections, while at the same time protecting our organism from developing deleterious autoimmune, chronic inflammatory disorders or cancerous diseases. This fine balance between abnormal, destructive immune responses and normal, beneficial immunity is largely dependent by nutrients, diet habits, diet supplements and micronutrients, and nutraceuticals. This is widely evident in countries which have adopted the westernized type of diet, which largely affects the immune system of the affected individuals leading to a variety of diseases. On the other hand, a balanced, healthy diet restores the ability of the immune system to fight pathogens, exerts beneficial effects on intestinal microbiome-related immunity, and protects us from the induction of autoimmunity and cancer.
This Special Issue will tackle (but will not be limited to) the following topics:
- All aspects related to the role, direct or indirect, of nutrition in the homeostasis of the immune system;
- Clinical trials or interventional studies in healthy individuals under diets, diet supplements or diet components reporting on their effect on the immune system;
- Microbiome or microbiota studies reporting on the effect on the immune system in humans and experimental models;
- Studies on the changes in mediators, cytokines, chemokines, cell populations related to the immune system following nutritional interventions;
- The direct and indirect effects of diet habits in the shaping of the immune system in healthy individuals and patients with inflammatory or chronic diseases;
- Metanalyses and systematic reviews investigating the role of diet or nutrients in immune system homeostasis such as levels of inflammation markers, etc.;
- Effect of diet in animal models of healthy animals or animal models of diseases;
- Studies investigating the interplay between immune system and other systems of various specialties (neurology, endocrinology, renal, liver, gastroenterology, hematology, oncology, surgery, etc.);
- Studies investigating the role of diet in inflammation and immune mediated inflammation in a state of health or a disease;
- In vitro, in vivo and ex vivo studies of any kind thoroughly discussing any aspect of nutrition and immunity.
Prof. Dr. Dimitrios P. Bogdanos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- autoimmunity
- immunonutrition
- diet and immunity
- immunoregulation
- microbiome
- autoimmune diseases
- impact of diet and fasting on the immune system
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