(1.Department of Physical Education;2.Department of Medical Immunology, Guangdong Medical College,Zhanjiang 524023,China)Abstract: In order to probe into the effects of shadowboxing exercise on cellular immune functions of college stu-dents, the authors divided 60 physically healthy college students randomly into an experiment group that did shad-owboxing exercise 3 times a week and a control group that did not do shadowboxing exercise, sampled their pe-ripheral blood 12 weeks later and tested the change of T cell subpopulation by means of twin color flow cytometry, and revealed that after the experiment the ratios of Th cells to Th1 cells, Th cells to Tc cells, and Th1 cells to Th2 cells in peripheral blood of students in the experiment group are significantly higher than those of students before the experiment and in the control group (P<0.05), which indicates that regular shadowboxing exercise can enhance cellular immune functions of college students, and promote the change of T cell subpopulation into Th1 cells. Key words: shadowboxing;college student;T cell subpopulation |