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

Figure 8

CD3+ T lymphocytes in peripheral blood. Cells were quantified by flow cytometry. In the sedentary and exercised mice, there was a higher percentage of CD3+ lymphocytes in the animals with a modified diet than in those with a standard diet. For the exercised mice, the carbohydrate-rich diet produced a higher percentage of these cells than the fat-rich diet. There was no difference in this sense among the sedentary mice. No differences were found between the sedentary and exercised mice (Bonferroni test ). Data are expressed as the mean ± SD ( per treatment group).