Enrichment slows disease progression in R6/2 Huntington?s disease mice (2002)

Hockly, E., Cordery, P. M., Woodman, B. et al.

Abstract

Housing mice in standard laboratory cages increased the rate of disease progression while housing them in enriched cages slowed the progress to a more 'normal' rate. Mice housed in such deprived conditions are unlikely to prove a good model of disease, and the effects of enrichment represent a partial reversal of the deliterious effects of relative environmental impoverishment.