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Acceleration of visual system development by environmental enrichment

Rearing mice from birth in an enriched environment leads to a conspicuous acceleration of visual system development as ascertained at behavioral, electrophysiological, and molecular level.

Year Published: 2004Animal Type: Mouse, Rodent

Citation: Cancedda, L., Putignano, E., Sale, A. et al. 2004. Acceleration of visual system development by environmental enrichment. Journal of Neuroscience 24 , 4840-4848.

Environmental enrichment for mice

Behavioural responses of outbred and inbred mice to a range of potential enrichments (cloth impregnated with the smell of unfamiliar mice, hessian hammock, half a coconut shell, playback of bird song, control of standard cage) were studied. The results show...

Year Published: 2004Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Mouse, Rodent

Citation: Brocklebank, S., Mendl, M., Nicol, C. J. et al. 2004. Environmental enrichment for mice. Proceedings of the International Congress on Applied Ethology, 240 (Abstract).

Environmental enrichment in mice decreases anxiety, attenuates stress responses and enhances natural killer cell activity

The importance of environment in the regulation of brain, behaviour and physiology has long been recognized in biological, social and medical sciences. Animals maintained under enriched conditions have clearly been shown to have better learning abilities than those maintained under...

Year Published: 2004Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Mouse, Rodent

Citation: Benaroya-Milshtein, N., Hollander, N., Apter, A. et al. 2004. Environmental enrichment in mice decreases anxiety, attenuates stress responses and enhances natural killer cell activity. European Journal of Neuroscience 20, 1341-1347.

The welfare of laboratory mice

Year Published: 2004Animal Type: Mouse, Rodent

Citation: Baumans, V. 2004. The welfare of laboratory mice. In: The Welfare of Laboratory Animals. Kaliste, E. (ed), 119-152. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Age at group formation alters behavior and physiology in male but not female CD-1 mice

In the laboratory environment, rodents are usually housed in unisexual groups, which are assembled after weaning. Housing of unfamiliar subjects has been described, however, as a stressful social setting for rodents and other mammals. Aim of the present study was...

Year Published: 2004Animal Type: Mouse, Rodent

Citation: Bartolomucci, A., Chirieleison, A., Gioiosa, L. et al. 2004. Age at group formation alters behavior and physiology in male but not female CD-1 mice. Physiology and Behavior 82, 424-434.

Effect of enrichment on variation and results in the light/dark test

The aim of this study was to investigate if cage enrichment induces an effect on experimental mean values and on inter-individual variation in the light/dark paradigm using diazepam as the anxiolytic drug. The behaviour of 216 naive adult male mice...

Year Published: 2003Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Mouse, Rodent

Citation: Augustsson, H., Van de Weerd, H. A., Kruitwagen, C. L. J. J. et al. 2003. Effect of enrichment on variation and results in the light/dark test. Laboratory Animals 37, 328-251.

Husbandry refinements for rats, mice, dogs and non-human primates used in telemetry procedures

A review on telemetry procedures for rats, mice, dogs and non-human primates.

Year Published: 2004Animal Type: Dog, Mouse, Nonhuman Primate, Rat, Rodent

Citation: Hawkins, P., Morton, D. B., Bevan, R. et al. 2004. Husbandry refinements for rats, mice, dogs and non-human primates used in telemetry procedures. Laboratory Animals 38, 1-10.

Sex differences in psychological behavior changes induced by long-term social isolation in mice

Social isolation can induce psychological behavior changes. It is interesting to know whether there is sex difference in responding to social isolation or not. The present study compared the behavior difference between male and female mice isolated for 1-4 months....

Year Published: 2004Animal Type: Mouse, Rodent

Citation: Guo, M., Wu, C. F., Liu, W. et al. 2004. Sex differences in psychological behavior changes induced by long-term social isolation in mice. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 28, 115-121.

Delayed onset of Huntington’s disease in mice in an enriched environment correlates with delayed loss of cannabinoid CB1 receptors

Our results therefore show that an enhanced environment slows the rate of loss of one of the first identifiable neurochemical deficits of HD. This suggests that delaying the loss of CB1 receptors, either by environmental stimulation or pharmacologically, may be...

Year Published: 2004Animal Type: Mouse, Rodent

Citation: Glass, M., Van Dellen, A., Blakemore, C. et al. 2004. Delayed onset of Huntington's disease in mice in an enriched environment correlates with delayed loss of cannabinoid CB1 receptors. Neuroscience 123, 207-212.

Barbering (fur and whisker trimming) by laboratory mice as a model of human trichotillomania and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders

In a typical cage of barbered mice, all but one individual will have near-identical patterns of hair loss. The intact individual (the 'barber') is removing hair from its companions. .. Barbers hold down their cage mates [who adopt a defensive...

Year Published: 2004Topics: Abnormal/Problematic BehaviorAnimal Type: Mouse, Rodent

Citation: Garner, J. P., Weisker, S. M., Dufour, B. et al. 2004. Barbering (fur and whisker trimming) by laboratory mice as a model of human trichotillomania and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders. Comparative Medicine 54(2), 216-224.