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

Figure 7

B lymphocytes in peripheral blood. Cells were quantified by flow cytometry. The pattern is clearly similar for sedentary and exercised mice, with a lower percentage of B lymphocytes in the animals with modified diets than those with a standard diet. However, in the exercised mice, the lower value for the carbohydrate-rich diet than the standard diet did not represent a significant difference. The sedentary mice had a higher percentage of B lymphocytes in the groups with the standard and fat-rich diet than the respective groups of the exercised animals (Bonferroni test ). Data are expressed as the mean ± SD ( per treatment group).