title: Nutritional regulation of host resistance and predictive value of immunologic tests in assessment of outcome.
abstract: In this review, the authors describe the current information on nutrition modulation of immunity, enumerate the various immunologic tests that are potentially useful in nutritional assessment, examine the reliability of tests predicting disease and complications, and discuss how immunologic evaluation may help in the decision process regarding nutritional support.
mesh_terms: D000936:Antigen-Antibody Complex; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D003176:Complement C3 / Q000276:immunology; D003677:Deficiency Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology*; D003906:Developing Countries; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D006801:Humans; D006968:Hypersensitivity, Delayed / Q000276:immunology; D007111:Immunity, Cellular; D007070:Immunoglobulin A / Q000032:analysis; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009656:North America; D009895:Opsonin Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology; D012463:Saliva / Q000032:analysis; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000936:Antigen-Antibody Complex; D003176:Complement C3; D007070:Immunoglobulin A; D009895:Opsonin Proteins