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It is unlikely that clinical studies will ever completely define the effect of route of feeding in all patient populations. This may be possible, however, if investigators understand, define and characterize nutrition-dependent immunologic mechanisms, allowing clinicians to examine clinical responses to nutrition in specific patient populations. This might allow generation of new approaches to protect mucosal immunity.
Kang et al. (Tue,) studied this question.