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. 2016 Apr 25;6:24879. doi: 10.1038/srep24879

Table 4. Differences between male and female mice in the open field test (arithmetic means ± SEM).

parameter   WT WTNH4Cl kl/klNH4Cl WTLVD kl/klLVD
speed [cm/s] 3.00 ± 0.58 2.75 ± 0.39 4.86 ± 0.47 2.37 ± 0.68 2.51 ± 0.40
2.55 ± 0.41 2.47 ± 0.58 4.11 ± 0.29 2.53 ± 0.64 2.24 ± 0.45
ttest 0.5266 0.5381 0.1651 0.8619 0.6612
total distance [m] 37.71 ± 6.95 36.03 ± 5.58 61.13 ± 6.53 35.91 ± 7.44 33.81 ± 6.45
33.09 ± 3.30 32.27 ± 9.82 56.84 ± 5.37 34.74 ± 6.83 35.34 ± 7.33
ttest 0.5553 0.9000 0.6128 0.9103 0.8762
time in border area [min] 29.66 ± 0.10 29.48 ± 0.40 27.47 ± 0.75 29.28 ± 0.32 29.86 ± 0.05
29.35 ± 0.39 29.62 ± 0.20 26.43 ± 0.66 28.45 ± 0.99 29.71 ± 0.15
ttest 0.4611 0.8112 0.3062 0.4423 0.3597
distance in border area [m] 36.31 ± 6.39 34.29 ± 5.93 58.04 ± 5.78 34.40 ± 4.56 33.03 ± 6.28
34.50 ± 3.45 31.39 ± 9.61 51.21 ± 4.70 34.40 ± 6.77 34.04 ± 6.77
ttest 0.5153 0.9585 0.3627 1 0.9141
time spent in corners [min] 24.03 ± 1.62 22.33 ± 2.05 18.96 ± 0.88 23.24 ± 2.32 25.41 ± 1.12
23.97 ± 1.58 24.16 ± 1.61 17.94 ± 1.62 24.91 ± 2.39 23.95 ± 2.13
ttest 0.9805 0.3798 0.6167 0.6276 0.5417
distance in center area [m] 1.48 ± 0.69 1.74 ± 1.28 5.63 ± 1.32 1.35 ± 1.26 0.77 ± 0.39
1.60 ± 0.86 0.87 ± 0.48 3.09 ± 0.85 0.49 ± 0.17 1.30 ± 0.68
ttest 0.8627 0.5802 0.1446 0.5154 0.4969
visits in center area 5.73 ± 1.75 5.13 ± 2.75 23.39 ± 6.39 9.67 ± 7.97 5.82 ± 2.68
10.18 ± 4.68 7.25 ± 3.44 36.53 ± 8.42 3.00 ± 1.75 9.60 ± 4.74
ttest 0.3837 0.6284 0.2482 0.4329 0.4854
time in center area [min] 0.35 ± 0.10 0.53 ± 0.40 2.53 ± 0.75 0.72 ± 0.32 0.14 ± 0.05
0.65 ± 0.39 0.39 ± 0.20 3.57 ± 0.66 1.56 ± 0.99 0.29 ± 0.15
ttest 0.4611 0.8112 0.3062 0.4423 0.3597
number of rearings in border area 96.73 ± 19.95 68.50 ± 15.56 154.69 ± 15.97 68.50 ± 24.14 86.82 ± 15.65
71.64 ± 20.00 69.75 ± 30.48 126.18 ± 14.07 51.83 ± 14.50 68.50 ± 16.09
ttest 0.3850 0.9813 0.1916 0.5671 0.4251
rearing time in border area [min] 3.22 ± 0.81 3.18 ± 1.00 7.56 ± 0.91 2.59 ± 1.14 3.10 ± 0.67
2.83 ± 0.91 2.33 ± 0.96 6.37 ± 0.63 2.56 ± 1.13 2.52 ± 0.79
ttest 0.7506 0.5128 0.1016 0.9865 0.5800
number of rearings in center area 1.46 ± 0.78 1.75 ± 1.05 5.69 ± 1.67 1.67 ± 1.31 0.27 ± 0.20
1.27 ± 0.68 0.25 ± 0.29 9.18 ± 2.59 1.17 ± 0.83 1.4 ± 0.95
ttest 0.8618 0.4543 0.3019 0.7538 0.2364
rearing time in center area [min] 1.36 ± 0.63 0.28 ± 0.20 6.92 ± 2.05 0.18 ± 0.16 0.34 ± 0.23
1.10 ± 0.76 0.40 ± 0.36 13.91 ± 5.03 0.18 ± 0.17 0.99 ± 0.86
ttest 0.7945 0.7266 0.2573 1 0.4501