title: Dietary lipids and immune function.
abstract: The influence of dietary lipids on immune function has come under serious study only within the past two decades. It is clear from whole-animal studies that obesity and consumption of diets high in fat, particularly unsaturated fat, depress immunocompetence and enhance risk for serious infectious disease and cancer. In vitro systems, cell cultures and the tools of molecular biology are moving nutrition and immunology closer together with promise of significant benefits.
authors.affiliation: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Division of Oncology Research, Philadelphia.
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Maki
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Newberne
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007109:Immunity; D007121:Immunocompetence; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000276:immunology; D009765:Obesity / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D004041:Dietary Fats