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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 5.
Published in final edited form as: JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2008;32(4):460–473. doi: 10.1177/0148607108319795

Figure 8.

Figure 8

Left figure: In a model of continued viral infection and shedding, enterally fed mice receiving chow or a complex enteral diet (CED) maintain normal immunity while 50% of animals fed parenteral nutrition intravenously (IV-TPN) lost immunity. Right figure: Survival after intra-tracheal Pseudomonas (PS) is increased by previous immunization and reduces mortality from 90% in non-immune animals to 10% in immunized Chow fed mice. Feeding animals a complex enteral diet (CED) after immunization also improves survival but animals fed parenterally (TPN) lose all immunity. (Right figure reproduced with permission of King et al. Ann Surg. 1999;229(2):272–278.).