Philip C. Calder

TL;DR: There is good evidence that probiotics can improve in vivo and ex vivo measures of immune function in older adults, and further research is required before conclusions can be made regarding the role that prebiotics or synbiotics may have on immunefunction in the elderly.

TL;DR: The current study presents specific norms for HGS in Saudi older adults by age, sex, and hand and examines the utility of these norms for prediction of morbidity and mortality in this population.

TL;DR: The n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid, arachidonic acid, is a precursor of prostaglandins, leukotrienes and related compounds that have important roles as mediators and regulators of inflammation.

TL;DR: A randomized double-blind parallel-group (1:1) trial was carried out in two neonatal intensive care units of two tertiary hospitals as discussed by the authors, where two hundred and twenty-five preterm newborns with an expected functional gastrointestinal tract were recruited and received an enteral dose of 75 mg of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)/kg body weight or high-oleic sunflower oil daily for 14 days from the first enteral feed after birth.