Table 1

Environmental enrichment did not ameliorate the effects of the HD mutation on body and brain weight at 9 months of age. The HD transgene affected both body weight (P < 0.001) and brain weight (P < 0.001), relative to WT littermates. NE: non-enriched (standard housed); EE: environmentally enriched.


WT
HD



EE
NE
EE
NE

Body weight (grams)
36.74 ± 1.75
40.02 ± 2.24
20.73 ± 0.56
21.24 ± 0.98
Brain weight (grams)
0.44 ± 0.013
0.45 ± 0.008
0.34 ± 0.013
0.36 ± 0.012

van Dellen et al. BMC Neuroscience 2008 9:34   doi:10.1186/1471-2202-9-34