For mice in the three enrichment groups ... A previous study has shown, however, that the use of aspen wood-wool and paper towels does not have harmful effects on newborn litters 11.

Different types of nesting material can be used in EE experiments, such as paper towels, grass, paper strips, wood-wool ... mice into the rat cage and cover it with its lid. Remove all the ...

For group-housed mice nesting material is a necessity not a luxury, i.e., enrichment" (Reinhardt ... And if you added paper tissues or wood-wool to the cage, these females would not hesitate to ...

Although a growing body of evidence indicates that environmental enrichment (EE) facilitates normal development and behaviour in laboratory mice, few studies were conducted to demonstrate its impact ...

Standard barren housing systems for laboratory mice restrict the expression of natural behaviors and are associated with a high incidence of abnormal behavior. There is abundant evidence that ...

In transgenic mice housed without enrichment, BDNF protein levels declined, but in mice housed in enriched conditions, the levels remained normal. Enriched mice also showed fewer Huntington's ...

To address this question, Angus-Hill and her team exposed mice with colon cancer to environmental enrichment by housing them in cages filled with many other mice, along with running wheels ...

Interviewer: By how much? Dr. Angus-Hill: So, these mice, normally, begin to get sick with colon tumors at around three to four months old and they'll live two to three months longer than that with ...