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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of moderate exercise training on natural killer cell cytotoxic activity(NKCA) in growing mice.
Three week-old male Swiss/Albino mice were randomly assigned to either control or exercise training groups. Twelve week moderate exercise training regimen was a run on a motorized treadmill at 15 m.min -1, 0 % slope, for 30 min. d-1 5 day a week. Following the training program splenic NKCA of mice was assayed by the Natural Anticandidial Index Methhod at three effectontarget (E:T) ratios, respectively 5:1, 1:1, 0.5:1. The results revealed that splenic NKCA was elevated in the exercise group campared to sedentary controls (P<0.05). As a conclusion, exercise training for 12 week in the growing stage in mice improved NKCA.