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@ARTICLE{Kempermann:165574,
author = {Kempermann, Gerd and Bogado Lopes, Jadna and Zocher, Sara
and Schilling, Susan and Ehret, Fanny and Garthe, Alexander
and Karasinsky, Anne and Brandmaier, Andreas M and
Lindenberger, Ulman and Winter, York and Overall, Rupert W},
title = {{T}he individuality paradigm: {A}utomated longitudinal
activity tracking of large cohorts of genetically identical
mice in an enriched environment.},
journal = {Neurobiology of disease},
volume = {175},
issn = {0969-9961},
address = {Orlando, Fla.},
publisher = {Academic Press},
reportid = {DZNE-2022-01714},
pages = {105916},
year = {2022},
abstract = {Personalized medicine intensifies interest in experimental
paradigms that delineate sources of phenotypic variation.
The paradigm of environmental enrichment allows for
comparisons among differently housed laboratory rodents to
unravel environmental effects on brain plasticity and
related phenotypes. We have developed a new longitudinal
variant of this paradigm, which allows to investigate the
emergence of individuality, the divergence of individual
behavioral trajectories under a constant genetic background
and in a shared environment. We here describe this novel
method, the 'Individuality Paradigm,' which allows to
investigate mechanisms that drive individuality. Various
aspects of individual activity are tracked over time to
identify the contribution of the non-shared environment,
that is the extent to which the experience of an environment
differs between individual members of a population. We
describe the design of this paradigm in detail, lay out its
scientific potential beyond the published studies and
discuss how it differs from other approaches to study
individuality. The custom-built cage system, commercially
marketed as 'ColonyRack', allows mice to roam freely between
70 cages through connector tubes equipped with ring antennas
that detect each animal's ID from an RFID transponder
implanted in the animal's neck. The system has a total floor
area of 2.74 m2 and its spatial resolution corresponds to
the size of the individual cages. Spatiotemporally resolved
antenna contacts yield longitudinal measures of individual
behavior, including the powerful measure of roaming entropy
(RE). The Individuality Paradigm provides a rodent model of
the making of individuality and the impact of the
'non-shared' environment on life-course development.},
subtyp = {Review Article},
keywords = {Animals / Mice / Individuality / Neuronal Plasticity /
Aging (Other) / Behavior (Other) / Brain (Other) /
Environmental enrichment (Other) / Gene environment
interaction (Other) / Home-cage tracking (Other) /
Individuation (Other) / Longitudinal (Other) / Non-shared
environment (Other) / Plasticity (Other)},
cin = {AG Kempermann / AG Garthe},
ddc = {570},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)1710001 / I:(DE-2719)1740001},
pnm = {352 - Disease Mechanisms (POF4-352)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-352},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:36336243},
doi = {10.1016/j.nbd.2022.105916},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/165574},
}