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Use of environmentally enriched housing for rats with spinal cord injury: the need for standardization (2007)

Burke, D. A., Magnuson, D. S. K., Nunn, C. D. et al.

Abstract

In the present study, environmental enrichment did not improve the locomotion of rats with contusion thoracic SCI. Determining the effectiveness of environmental enrichment to improve locomotor recovery in the SCI model requires standardization of housing procedures, outcome measures, and analyses.

Published
2007

Animal Type
Rat, Rodent
Topic
Environmental Enrichment

Citation
Burke, D. A., Magnuson, D. S. K., Nunn, C. D. et al. 2007. Use of environmentally enriched housing for rats with spinal cord injury: the need for standardization. Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science 46(2).

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