Open Field Test
Objective: Assessment of locomotor activity and anxiety-like behavior in mice using an open field apparatus
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Protocol Steps
Animal acclimation to testing room
Animals were given habituation time to the behavioral testing room prior to testing
Note: Habituation performed before behavioral phenotyping
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“Animals were given 30 min of habituation to the behavioral testing room”
Open field test execution
Open field test performed as part of behavioral phenotyping battery, conducted after rotarod, elevated plus maze, and marble burying test to minimize influence of prior test history
Note: Test order was reversed after chronic restraint stress for bell-shaped stress exposure; testing performed between 0900h and 1600h
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“Tests were performed from the least to the most invasive to minimize the influence of prior test history (in order: rotarod, elevated plus maze, marble burying test, open field test, sucrose preference test, novelty suppressed feeding and forced swim test)”