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. 2021 Mar 30;9(4):46. doi: 10.3390/sports9040046

Table 2.

Exercise-induced changes in tumor infiltration of macrophages (M), neutrophils (N), natural killer cells (NK), total T lymphocytes (CD3+), cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CD8+), T helper lymphocytes (CD4+), and regulatory T lymphocytes (Tregs) and their impact on tumor growth in mice.

No Study Tumor Exercise
Duration
Tumor Infiltration Tumor
Growth
M N NK CD3+ CD8+ CD4+ Tregs
10 Abdalla et al., 2014 Drug
DMBA
8 weeks ↑(M1)
12 Zielinski et al., 2004 EL-4
lymphoid
2 weeks
13 Almeida et al., 2009 Ehrlich
tumor
6 weeks
14 Rundqvist et al., 2020 I3TC
cells
10 weeks
15 McClellan et al., 2014 intestine
tumor
12 weeks
22 Pedersen et al., 2016 B16
melanoma
6 weeks
B16
lung *
6 weeks
23 Wang et al., 2020 4T1
breast
44 days
33 Hagar et al., 2019 4T1
breast
8 weeks ↓(CD8/
FoxP3)
34 Wennerberg et al., 2020 4T1
breast
22 days —(↑CD56)
35 Shamsi et al., 2019 4T1
cells
12 weeks

DMBA: dimethylbenz(a)anthracene, M1: macrophages 1, ↑: increase, ↓: reduction, —: no change, * metastatic tumor.