Mice transmit acquired adaptability to their offspring

(University of G ö ttingen) If mice grow up in a stimulating environment, their brain remains adaptable for longer. In fact, not only these mice, but also their offspring, benefit. The offspring also have increased plasticity of the brain - even if they did not grow up in this environment. This is what a team from the Collaborative Research Centre 889 " Cellular Mechanisms of Sensory Processing " at the University of G ö ttingen has discovered. Results were published in the journal eNeuro.
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