Exercise enhances survival rate in mice infected with Salmonella typhimurium.
Mice voluntarily trained on exercise wheels for 16-18 days and were then infected with an approximate LD50 dose of Salmonella typhimurium. These trained mice exhibited a small, but statistically significant (P = 0.037) increase in survival rate (34/77) compared to sedentary control mice (23/79) after 7 days.
D000818:Animals; D007113:Immunity, Innate; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D005082:Physical Exertion; D012480:Salmonella Infections / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000472:pathogenicity