Environmental enrichment lowers stress-responsive hormones in singly housed male and female rats

EE Belz, JS Kennell, RK Czambel, RT Rubin… - Pharmacology …, 2003 - Elsevier
… the physiological effects of environmental enrichment (EE) with … in singly housed, jugular
vein-cannulated, male and female rats. … were significantly lower in female rats housed with EE. …

Environmental enrichment effects in social investigation in rats are gender dependent

Y Peña, M Prunell, V Dimitsantos, R Nadal… - Behavioural Brain …, 2006 - Elsevier
… In the EPM, both enriched male and female rats showed less … Environmental enrichment
(E) can change neural structure … spatial learning since enriched rats or mice performed shorter …

Environmental enrichment in female rodents: considerations in the effects on behavior and biochemical markers

C Girbovan, H Plamondon - Behavioural Brain Research, 2013 - Elsevier
environment by female rats reared in isolation with physical … female rats were housed four
per cage, enriched rats had significantly higher levels of CORT compared to singly-housed rats

Combined pre-and postnatal environmental enrichment programs the HPA axis differentially in male and female rats

L Welberg, KV Thrivikraman, PM Plotsky - Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2006 - Elsevier
… Thus, in the study described here, female rats were environmentally enriched—to a …
stressor in adult male and female offspring with and without previous exposure to chronic stress. …

The impact of environmental enrichment in laboratory rats—behavioural and neurochemical aspects

J Simpson, JP Kelly - Behavioural brain research, 2011 - Elsevier
… On the other hand, female rats had lower CORT in crowded housing condition and showed
elevated levels and greater anxiety when housed in isolation. Cage size and space is clearly …

Loss of environmental enrichment elicits behavioral and physiological dysregulation in female rats

R Morano, O Hoskins, BL Smith… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
… exposed groups of rats to environmental enrichment (EE) for a protracted period (1 month),
followed by removal of enrichment (ER), to induce an experience of loss in male rats. ER …

Behavioral effects of environmental enrichment on male and female wistar rats with early life stress experiences

K Corredor, JM Duran, L Herrera-Isaza… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
enrichment interacts with other variables. Here we evaluate the effects of environmental
enrichment in male and female Wistar rats … positive effect of environmental enrichment (PND 28–…

Effects of social and physical enrichment on open field activity differ in male and female Sprague–Dawley rats

BM Elliott, NE Grunberg - Behavioural brain research, 2005 - Elsevier
females differ in their response to enrichment [Bardo MT, Kiebaur JE, Valone JM, Deaton C.
Environmental enrichment … of amphetamine in male and female rats. Psychopharm 2001;155:…

Environmental enrichment decreases intravenous self-administration of amphetamine in female and male rats

M Bardo, J Klebaur, J Valone, C Deaton - Psychopharmacology, 2001 - Springer
… , environmental enrichment during early development was found to influence amphetamine
self-administration in both female and male rats. Regardless of sex, both EC and SC rats

Providing environmental enrichment without altering behavior in male and female wistar rats (Rattus norvegicus)

K Corredor, DP Marín, CC García… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ingentaconnect.com
environment as an important element in the modulation of behavior, environmental enrichment
… EE is defined as adding biologically relevant features to the cage environment to facilitate …