Dietary Components and Immune Function focuses on immune modulation, immune mediated disease resistance, immune changes due to AIDS, immune modulated cancer therapy, and autoimmune diseases as modified by dietary supplement, bioactive foods and supplements. The potential value of such approaches in maintaining wellness and preventing disease are addressed by examining their effects in vitro and in vivo on innate and adaptive immune responses. Emerging fields of science and important discoveries relating to early stages of new nutriceuticals in cancer prevention, prior to clinical trials are also covered. This volume represents a single source of material related to nutriceuticals and their constituents as they relate to cancer therapy and prevention. As such, the book will be essential reading for nutritionists, pharmacologists, health care professionals, research scientists, cancer workers, pathologists, molecular or cellular biochemists, physicians, general practitioners as well as those interested in diet and nutrition in disease resistance via immune regulation. TOC:SECTION A. Overview: Dietary Components and Immunomodulation 1. The Human Immune System and Modulation by Bioactive Foods and Dietary Supplements 2. Modulation of Dendritic Cells by Botanicals: Role in Immune Enhancement 3. Historic Perspective on Dietary Components Affecting Disease Resistance and Cancer Prevention and Treatment 4. Dietary Components in Immune Regulation 5. Immunodeficiency and Vitamin Deficiency 6. Immunosuppressive Actions of Food and Their Extracts 7. Immunology and Homeopathy SECTION B. Nutriceuticals and Immune-mediated Cancer Therapy 8. Botanicals as Prostate Cancer Immunotherapies 9. Traditional Chinese Dietary Supplements and Foods in Immune-mediated Cancer Therapy 10. Plant Extracts, Immunity and Ovarian Cancer 11. Bioactive Foods and Dietary Supplements to Prevent Decline of Immune Function in Patients with Advanced Cancer 12. Bioactive Foods and Plant Extracts in Therapy in Breast Cancer 13. Fruits and their extracts in Oral Epithelial Cancer Therapy 14. Botanical Immune Therapies in Hemato-oncology SECTION C. Dietary Components, Allergy, Asthma and Cancer Prevention 15. Profiles of Plants` Anticancer and Immunomodulatory Properties 16. Botanicals Components in Skin Cancer Prevention 17. Nutrients, Foods and Extracts for Food Allergy Therapy 18. Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Deficiencies in Asthma: Modification by Diet SECTION D. Botanical Extracts and Promotion of Infectious Disease Resistance 19. Deficiency of Bioactive Foods and Their Dietary Components in Loss of Disease Resistance 20. Traditional African Anti-pathogen Botanical Extract Therapies: Role of Immunomodulation 21. Chinese Herbal Medicines in Bacteria and Viral Resistance 22. Botanical Extracts in Treatment of Surgical Immunosuppression: Prevention of Infections 23. Chinese Botanicals and Cytokine Regulation for Enhanced Host Defense 24. Botanical Extracts with Immunomodulatory Activity: Role in Disease Resistance SECTION E. Bioactive Foods and Treatment of Immunodeficiency Diseases 25. Wheat and other Bioactive Foods: Immune Regulation and Arthritis Therapy 26. Mushrooms and Immunomodulation: Role in Disease and Cancer Therapy 27. Bovine Colostrum and Milk in Treatment of Immune Deficiency and Disease Prevention 28. Immunomodulatory Activities of Dietary Plants in Health Promotion 29. Dietary Plants in Immune-mediated Therapy of Immunosenescence SECTION F. Dietary Components and Immunity in Treatment of HIV Infection 30. Vitamin Supplements and Disease Resistance in HIV-infected Women and Children 31. Dietary Supplements in HIV-infected: Effects on Immune and Disease Resistance 32. Micronutrient Supplements and Bioactive Foods: Benefits for Immune Function in Uninfected and HIV Infected 33. Trace Elements and Immune Benefits in HIV Infected 34. Lymphocyte Function: Role of Lipids, Fatty Acids and Alpha-Lipoic Acid Supplementation in Patients with HIV Infection