Effect of Diet and Exercise on the Peripheral Immune System in Young Balb/c Mice

Figure 5

Proliferation of lymphocytes in peripheral blood. Postculture quantification of lymphocytes was performed in a Neubauer chamber. Whiting the sedentary and exercised groups, there was a lower level of cell proliferation in mice with the modified diets than the standard diet, and a lower level in animals with the carbohydrate-rich than fat-rich diet. Comparing the sedentary and exercised mice, there were no differences in this parameter between the groups with modified diets. There was a lower level of this parameter in the sedentary than exercised group with a standard diet (Bonferroni test ). Data are expressed as the mean ± SD ( per treatment group).