PMID- 10996041
DA - 20001019
DCOM- 20001019
LR - 20001218
IS - 0166-4328
VI - 114
IP - 1-2
DP - 2000 Sep
TI - Environmental enrichment from birth enhances visual acuity but not place learning in mice.
PG - 11-5 AB - The effect of richness of the environment on behavioral function was investigated in C57B6 mice. Animals were raised in either enriched (group-housed in large clear plexiglas cages with stimulating objects) or restricted (group housed in opaque white plastic cages with no stimulating objects) environmental conditions and their spatial learning and visual acuity were measured as adults. The performance of enriched and restricted groups were indistinguishable in place and cued versions of the Morris water task; however, the visual acuity of the enriched group, measured in a grating versus gray version of the visual water task, was 18% higher than the restricted group. These data demonstrate that the function of the mouse visual system can be significantly influenced by the nature of early visual input. They also indicate that the effects of environmental enrichment are manifested differently in behavioral measures of spatial learning and visual acuity.
AD - Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, 4401
[emd]
FAU - Prusky, G T
AU - Prusky GT
FAU - Reidel, C
AU - Reidel C
FAU - Douglas, R M
AU - Douglas RM
LA - eng
PT - Journal Article
CY - NETHERLANDS
TA - Behav Brain Res
JID - 8004872
SB - IM
MH - Animal
MH - Animals, Newborn
MH - Conditioning, Operant/*physiology
MH - *Environment
MH - Female
MH - Maze Learning/physiology
MH - Mice
MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL
MH - Neuronal Plasticity/physiology
MH - Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MH - Visual Acuity/*physiology
EDAT- 2000/09/21 11:00
MHDA- 2000/10/21 11:01
AID - S0166432800001868 [pii]
PST - ppublish
SO - Behav Brain Res 2000 Sep;114(1-2):11-5.