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From: Enriched environment and masticatory activity rehabilitation recover spatial memory decline in aged mice

Figure 3

Experimental timeline. Female albino Swiss mice were housed either in impoverished or enriched environments (middle panel left) from postnatal days 21 until 180 (6 months old; 6M) or 540 (18 months old; 18M), under one of the following diet regimes: HD groups correspond to continuous pellet diets; HD/SD regimes for 6 or 18 months correspond to alternating pellet and powder diet every 3 or 9 months, respectively; HD/SD/HD regimes for 6 or 18 months correspond to sequences of pellet, powder, and pellet food every 2 or 6 months, respectively. All 6M and 18M animals were submitted to the Morris water maze (middle panel, right) between 180 and 195 and between 540 and 555 postnatal days, respectively. Bottom panel: pellet (hard diet) and powder (soft diet) food. Time is represented in days after birth and increases from left to right.

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