Strengthening the immune system and reducing inflammation and oxidative stress through diet and nutrition: considerations during the COVID-19 crisis

M Iddir, A Brito, G Dingeo, SS Fernandez Del Campo… - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
The coronavirus-disease 2019 (COVID-19) was announced as a global pandemic by the
World Health Organization. Challenges arise concerning how to optimally support the …

Dietary regulation in health and disease

Q Wu, ZJ Gao, X Yu, P Wang - Signal Transduction and Targeted …, 2022 - nature.com
Nutriments have been deemed to impact all physiopathologic processes. Recent evidences
in molecular medicine and clinical trials have demonstrated that adequate nutrition …

Differential peripheral immune signatures elicited by vegan versus ketogenic diets in humans

VM Link, P Subramanian, F Cheung, KL Han, A Stacy… - Nature medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Nutrition has broad impacts on all physiological processes. However, how nutrition affects
human immunity remains largely unknown. Here we explored the impact of a dietary …

Impaired ketogenesis ties metabolism to T cell dysfunction in COVID-19

F Karagiannis, K Peukert, L Surace, M Michla… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Anorexia and fasting are host adaptations to acute infection, and induce a metabolic switch
towards ketogenesis and the production of ketone bodies, including β-hydroxybutyrate …

[HTML][HTML] Ketolysis drives CD8+ T cell effector function through effects on histone acetylation

KM Luda, J Longo, SM Kitchen-Goosen, LR Duimstra… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Environmental nutrient availability influences T cell metabolism, impacting T cell function
and sha** immune outcomes. Here, we identified ketone bodies (KBs)—including β …

[HTML][HTML] Ketogenic diet and ketone bodies enhance the anticancer effects of PD-1 blockade

G Ferrere, MT Alou, P Liu, AG Goubet, M Fidelle… - JCI insight, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Limited experimental evidence bridges nutrition and cancer immunosurveillance. Here, we
show that ketogenic diet (KD)—or its principal ketone body, 3-hydroxybutyrate (3HB), most …

Distinct metabolic programs established in the thymus control effector functions of γδ T cell subsets in tumor microenvironments

N Lopes, C McIntyre, S Martin, M Raverdeau… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Metabolic programming controls immune cell lineages and functions, but little is known
about γδ T cell metabolism. Here, we found that γδ T cell subsets making either interferon-γ …

Control of immunity via nutritional interventions

N Collins, Y Belkaid - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Nutrition affects all physiological processes including those linked to the development and
function of our immune system. Here, we discuss recent evidence and emerging concepts …

Interleukin-17 as a key player in neuroimmunometabolism

A Douglas, B Stevens, L Lynch - Nature metabolism, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract In mammals, interleukin (IL)-17 cytokines are produced by innate and adaptive
lymphocytes. However, the IL-17 family has widespread expression throughout evolution …

High body temperature increases gut microbiota-dependent host resistance to influenza A virus and SARS-CoV-2 infection

M Nagai, M Moriyama, C Ishii, H Mori… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Fever is a common symptom of influenza and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), yet its
physiological role in host resistance to viral infection remains less clear. Here, we …