Xin Y, Gao H, Wang J, et al. Cell discovery 2017;3:17025.
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| Setting | Value | Paper’s words |
|---|---|---|
| Beam size |
| “a 100-cm long, 10-mm thick beam” |
| Beam height |
| “beam was placed at a height of 70 cm” |
| Other settings in the paper | ||
| Acclimate to the goal box | Training 10 min | “During training, the mouse was allowed to acclimate to the goal box for 10 min.” |
| Trained | three consecutive days | “The mice were trained for three consecutive days and were tested on the fourth day.” |
| Tested | on the fourth day | “The mice were trained for three consecutive days and were tested on the fourth day.” |
| Tests were repeated | Thereafter once a week | “Thereafter, the tests were repeated once a week until the mice could no longer complete the tests.” |
| Repeated | Thereafter until the mice could no longer complete the tests | “Thereafter, the tests were repeated once a week until the mice could no longer complete the tests.” |
| Apparatus | ||
| Balance beam | “For the balance beam [33, 34], a 100-cm long, 10-mm thick beam was placed at a height of 70 cm with an enclosed goal box at one end.” | |
| Setting | Value | Paper’s words |
|---|---|---|
| Run duration criterion |
| “A successful trial was defined as the mouse taking ⩽10 s to cross the field of vision of a video camera” |
| Number of runs |
| “Each mouse successfully completed three trials on each training day” “Each mouse successfully completed three trials on each training day and two trials on the test day.” |
| Not in the Methods | Walkway size | |
| Other settings in the paper | ||
| Allowed to acclimate | 10 min | “the mouse was placed in an enclosed box at the end of the walkway and allowed to acclimate for 10 min” |
| Light on the walkway | green | “with a green light on the walkway and a red ceiling light to illuminate the mouse” |
| Ceiling light | red | “with a green light on the walkway and a red ceiling light to illuminate the mouse” |
| Lights | turned off | “after which the lights were turned off” |
| Trained | three consecutive days | “The mice were trained for three consecutive days and were tested on the fourth day.” |
| Tested | the fourth day | “The mice were trained for three consecutive days and were tested on the fourth day.” |
| Tests were repeated | once a week | “Thereafter, the tests were repeated once a week until the mice could no longer complete the tests.” |
| Apparatus | ||
| CatWalk XT system | Noldus Information Technology | “we used the CatWalk XT system [37–39] (Noldus Information Technology, Wageningen, The Netherlands)” |
| CatWalk XT software | “which was analyzed by CatWalk XT software” | |
| Setting | Value | Paper’s words |
|---|---|---|
| Rod speed |
| “three 5-min training trials with the speed set to 10, 12 and 14 r.p.m.” “During testing, the rotarod speed was increased from 4 to 40 r.p.m. over a 5-min period” |
| Trial duration |
| “three 5-min training trials” “the rotarod speed was increased from 4 to 40 r.p.m. over a 5-min period” |
| Number of trials |
| “with three 5-min training trials with the speed set to 10, 12 and 14 r.p.m.” “trained on the rotarod for three consecutive days” |
| Other settings in the paper | ||
| Trained on the rotarod | Training three consecutive days | “trained on the rotarod for three consecutive days” |
| Period over which the rotarod speed was increased | Testing 5-min | “the rotarod speed was increased from 4 to 40 r.p.m. over a 5-min period” |
| Were tested | on the fourth day | “The mice were trained for three consecutive days and were tested on the fourth day.” |
| The tests were repeated | once a week | “Thereafter, the tests were repeated once a week until the mice could no longer complete the tests.” |
| Apparatus | ||
| Accelerating rotarod | Softmaze, XR1514 | “The accelerating rotarod [35, 36] (Softmaze-XR1514, Shanghai, China) consisted of a felt-covered steel cylinder fitted to a rotating pump with a variable speed setting.” |