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Recent advances in understanding the interactions between nutrients and immunity in farm animals

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Energy and protein metabolism and nutrition in sustainable animal production

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Nutrition is an important determinant of the development and efficacy of the immune system. Nutrition is also sometimes used as a management tool to affect changes in the type or magnitude of an immune response. These developments have been the result of difficult research that relies on accepted principles of nutrition to inform the somewhat unknown frontiers of immunology and disease resistance. Historically, plethoric levels of nutrients were thought to boost, improve, or stimulate immunity and these claims were a tool of nutrient marketing because of the intellectual vacuum. These claims illustrate sloppiness in thinking, which fortunately has diminished due to our new appreciation for the role of nutrients in the immune system.

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Klasing, K.C., Iseri, V.J. (2013). Recent advances in understanding the interactions between nutrients and immunity in farm animals. In: Oltjen, J.W., Kebreab, E., Lapierre, H. (eds) Energy and protein metabolism and nutrition in sustainable animal production. Energy and protein metabolism and nutrition in sustainable animal production, vol 134. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen. https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-781-3_124

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