Dark Chocolate Intake Acutely Enhances Neutrophil Count in Peripheral Venous Blood

• Main Authors: Martina Montagnana (Author), Elisa Danese (Author), Gabriel Lima-Oliveira (Author), Gian Luca Salvagno (Author), Giuseppe Lippi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Iranian Society of Pathology, 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Beside the well-established impact on decreasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases (1), recent attention has been paid to the relationship between cocoa-containing foods and the immune system (2), showing that dark chocolate consumption enhances the systemic defense against bacterial (3) and viral...