Rotarod test
Chuyu Chen
Published: 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.17504/protocols.io.eq2lywe3rvx9/v1
Abstract
Motor learning was assessed with an accelerating rotarod.
Steps
1.
The task was done using a rotarod apparatus (Panlab) equipped with a mouse rod (3 cm diameter) and set to 4–40 rpm acceleration over 300 seconds.
2.
The task consisted of daily sessions (five trials per session; intertrial-interval = 15 s, max trial duration = 300 s)
3.
Mice were placed on the accelerating rotarod. The time of mouse fell from the rod was recorded. The mean of 5 trials is used for the final analysis
