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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 31.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Brain Res. 2011 Jun 1;224(2):259–271. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.05.030

Table 1.

Test battery applied with 20 inbred strains; half of mice received ethanol on days 2 and 5

Day Dose Task Parameters
1 none Balance beam (BB) 2 pretraining trials from each end
1 none Fixed speed rotarod (FSRR) 4 pretraining trials at 6.5 RPM
1 none Accelerating rotarod (ARR) 10 training trials at 20 RPM/min
2 1.25 g/kg FSRR 1 (5 min limit) trial 1 min after injection
2 1.25 g/kg BB 1 trial 10 min after injection
2 1.25 g/kg ARR 3 trials 30 min after injection
5 1.75 g/kg Open field (ACT) 1 5 min trial 5 min after injection
5 1.75 g/kg Grip strength (GRIP) 3 trials 10 min after injection
5 1.75 g/kg FSRR 1 (3 min limit) trial 30 min after inject.
5 1.75 g/kg ARR 3 trials 33 min after injection
8 3.0 g/kg to
all mice
Observer-rated ataxia (ORA) 1 min Baseline period and 1 min period
at 10 min after injection
8 3.0 g/kg to
all mice
Hypothermia test (HTT) Into chamber for 2h, then rectal
temperature 0, 30, 120 min after inject.