摘要 |
Disclosed is a culture medium and methods for lymphocyte assessment of the nutritional status of humans by which repeatable and quantitative assays for deficiencies, abnormal requirements for or imbalances of vitamins, minerals and amino acids; for carbohydrate utilization, metabolism and imbalances and the like are obtained so that nutrition for each individual can be optimized thereby providing a significant impact on human health and productivity. Minimal amounts of lymphocytes and components of the culture medium are utilized making it possible to conduct a large number of nutritional assays with a small sample of blood. |