Beneficial effects of environmental enrichment and food entrainment in the R6/2 mouse model of Huntington's disease

Brain and Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 675-686

  Skillings, Elizabeth A ^a   Wood, Nigel I ^a   Morton, A Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FEO; Circadian restoration; Metabolism; Phenotype; Voluntary exercise

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONOBIOLOGY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; FOOD ENTRAINMENT; GENERAL HEALTH STATUS ASSESSMENT; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISEASE MODEL; FOOD; HEALTH STATUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FOOD; HEALTH STATUS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICE; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84910044957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21623279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/brb3.235     Document Type: Article

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