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 ...

A colony of mice (base strain C57Bl6) was transferred to Oregon State University. Fighting was observed in six cages of males (2 to 5 mice per cage) at cage change, but not during daily checks. After ...

Purdue University scientists found that mice raised in cages may relieve stress with behaviors associated with mice in the wild. And for researchers using lab mice, this may mean that by allowing mice ...

Environmental enrichment can partially correct miswired neurons in the visual pathway, according to new research. Environmental enrichment can partially correct miswired neurons in the visual pathway, ...

The US National Library of Medicine (NLM) - National Institutes of Health (NIH) states that appropriate science and animal care operate simultaneously. A troubled or unwell animal does not yield the ...

Veterinarian Tara Martin with the University of Michigan says she takes care to make lab mice feel at home in their cages, so that when they’re not being used for experiments, they can do normal mouse ...

WASHINGTON, DC March 4 – Staying physically or mentally active can slow down chemical changes in the brain that lead to the neurodegeneration of Huntington's disease, researchers show in a mouse model ...

At the 37th conference of the Society for Neuroscience, held earlier this month in San Diego, Sangram Sisodia’s group at the University of Chicago, Illinois, presented new data that exemplify how the ...

Environmental enrichment can partially correct miswired neurons in the visual pathway, according to research in mice recently published in eNeuro. During normal development, neurons exit the retina ...