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11714494

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-11-20
pubmed:abstractText
Early stimulation by environmental enrichment generally leads to improved learning abilities in rodents. However, the effects of environmental enrichment on emotional reactivity remain more questionable and were mostly studied by using classical tests of anxiety based on confrontation with a novel environment. The main goal of our study was to use different tests of anxiety to compare BALB/c mice reared in either a standard condition (SC) or enriched condition (EC). Exposure to cat feces was used to assess anxiety according to an ethoexperimental approach and a comparison was made with the elevated plus maze and the open field as classical tests of anxiety. In accordance with previous works, our results show that EC mice were more active than SC mice in the elevated plus maze and the open field. Thus, possibly as a direct consequence of frequent changes in their breeding conditions, reactivity to a novel environment was reduced in EC mice. However, the cat odor test revealed no intergroup differences for behavior, although corticosterone levels were reduced in EC mice. These results indicate that classical (i.e. reaction to novel environments) and ethoexperimental-based tests (i.e. exposure to predator cues) measure different aspects of emotional reactivity. Further studies using ECs should be useful for the delineation of the neurobiological substrates of these different reactions.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0031-9384
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
74
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
313-20
pubmed:dateRevised
2003-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Environmental enrichment in BALB/c mice: effects in classical tests of anxiety and exposure to a predatory odor.
pubmed:affiliation
UPRES PSY.CO, EA 1780, Laboratoire de Neurobiologie de l'Apprentissage, UFR des Sciences de Rouen, Mont-Saint-Aignan 76821, France. vincent.roy@univ-rouen.fr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article