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

Table 6. Differences between male and female mice in the O Maze test (arithmetic means ± SEM).

parameter   WT WTNH4Cl kl/klNH4Cl WTLVD kl/klLVD
protected headdips 27.00 ± 6.15 23.88 ± 2.86 45.65 ± 3.65 22.83 ± 5.06 20.50 ± 2.66
34.27 ± 6.42 29.75 ± 3.76 41.00 ± 3.77 26.50 ± 7.21 19.82 ± 2.93
ttest 0.4231 0.4412 0.4735 0.6858 0.8660
unprotected headdips 4.36 ± 1.50 3.50 ± 1.35 11.77 ± 1.71 5.67 ± 1.45 5.40 ± 1.32
6.64 ± 2.44 2.75 ± 1.30 11.47 ± 2.14 3.67 ± 1.17 4.73 ± 0.95
ttest 0.4365 0.8528 0.9350 0.3095 0.6799
visits in open arms 27.27 ± 7.36 18.63 ± 7.10 44.14 ± 5.10 19.50 ± 3.23 22.00 ± 4.69
21.27 ± 4.46 19.88 ± 7.06 39.59 ± 6.95 20.00 ± 8.74 25.73 ± 7.02
ttest 0.4937 0.7324 0.5636 0.9552 0.6705
distance in open arms [m] 3.46 ± 1.02 2.24 ± 0.97 6.03 ± 0.75 3.28 ± 0.41 2.98 ± 0.82
2.96 ± 0.73 2.03 ± 0.82 5.53 ± 0.76 2.57 ± 0.62 3.32 ± 0.66
ttest 0.6895 0.9564 0.6933 0.3616 0.7462
time in open arms [min] 1.11 ± 0.30 0.73 ± 0.27 2.02 ± 0.26 0.94 ± 0.12 1.12 ± 0.21
1.27 ± 0.25 0.82 ± 0.33 2.18 ± 0.25 0.96 ± 0.15 1.03 ± 0.24
ttest 0.6783 0.6649 0.6700 0.9447 0.7722
distance in closed arms [m] 12.42 ± 1.00 12.07 ± 1.03 15.65 ± 0.76 11.69 ± 2.32 10.45 ± 1.26
12.40 ± 1.34 11.26 ± 1.25 17.92 ± 1.23 10.49 ± 1.56 10.84 ± 1.03
ttest 0.9898 0.7379 0.3923 0.6770 0.8103
total distance [m] 15.56 ± 1.88 14.30 ± 1.62 21.68 ± 1.22 14.92 ± 2.31 13.42 ± 1.64
15.35 ± 1.63 13.30 ± 1.76 22.82 ± 1.51 13.12 ± 1.46 14.16 ± 1.13
ttest 0.9336 0.8454 0.6513 0.5265 0.7114
speed [cm/s] 2.29 ± 0.30 2.22 ± 0.29 3.67 ± 0.20 2.01 ± 0.29 2.47 ± 0.25
3.82 ± 0.49 2.43 ± 0.34 3.63 ± 0.29 1.97 ± 0.09 2.33 ± 0.23
ttest 0.1353 0.4781 0.8705 0.8882 0.6823
time in open arms [%] 11.06 ± 2.99 7.34 ± 2.74 20.17 ± 2.55 9.41 ± 1.23 11.22 ± 2.10
12.70 ± 2.51 8.17 ± 3.33 21.76 ± 2.47 9.55 ± 1.46 10.28 ± 2.39
ttest 0.6783 0.6649 0.6696 0.9447 0.7721
time open/closed arms *100 13.75 ± 3.94 8.67 ± 3.57 26.89 ± 4.27 10.50 ± 1.54 13.21 ± 2.68
15.56 ± 3.54 9.85 ± 4.48 30.25 ± 4.88 10.70 ± 1.78 12.35 ± 3.33
ttest 0.7361 0.6674 0.6428 0.9328 0.8439
distance open arms [%] 22.24 ± 4.33 15.62 ± 5.12 27.81 ± 2.83 22.01 ± 2.73 22.18 ± 4.81
19.26 ± 3.96 15.29 ± 4.79 24.21 ± 2.24 19.60 ± 8.08 23.45 ± 4.34
ttest 0.6184 0.7854 0.5286 0.4239 0.6645
distance open/closed arms *100 27.87 ± 6.49 18.52 ± 9.19 38.53 ± 5.27 28.09 ± 4.35 28.50 ± 9.67
23.86 ± 6.95 18.05 ± 7.11 31.95 ± 4.30 24.52 ± 7.26 30.64 ± 12.81
ttest 0.6544 0.9178 0.4911 0.2703 0.6927